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...Bears did not go away easily, fighting back behind the torrid shooting of freshman forward Colleen Kelly. After a nightmare first half in which she scored only two points and misfired on all nine shots from the field, including five three-point attempts, the rookie found her touch in the second half. Kelly connected on four three-pointers and scored 17 of Brown’s 27 points as the Bears turned a 51-34 blowout into a 66-61 thriller with two minutes remaining. Kelly finished the game with 19 points on 6 of 18 shooting...
Minnesota came out of the break with the same torrid shooting that had typified the first half. The Gophers shot 60 percent from the floor in the frame...
With intelligence and humor Raeburn's writing mixes up the highbrow world of 50-cent terminology with colloquialisms like "idjit," for "idiot." Never dry or academic, he often includes personal anecdotes like the absurd story of his torrid affair with "Peaches," the daughter of drug runner. Then he admits to making it all up. Then he says it's true, mixing up life and art as much as any historieta melodrama. Even the design, also by Raeburn, perfectly mimics the look of a typical historieta, right down the paper stock of cover. The man's commitment is total...
...Vast untapped market or no, China is proving vulnerable to the same woes plaguing cellular operators in more developed countries throughout the world, including cell phone-crazy Japan and Hong Kong where once-torrid growth rates have tapered off. Chinese carriers have already joined the parade of telcos worldwide that have slashed investments in their networks. China Mobile, which controls 70% of the market, is cutting capital spending this year by almost 20% to $6.5 billion. The company says it will spend even less, $5.3 billion...
...which of these two cases applies to Spice, which boasts “fine Thai cuisine” on Holyoke Street? Adaptation, or simply fraudulence? Real Thai food, to my mind, is a harsh taskmaster, intransigently fiery and torrid, laced with demanding, domineering accents—lemongrass, basil, shallots. I didn’t expect the typical American palate to be able to hold up against the full assault. There was clearly going to have to be some compromise. Not that this was necessarily a bad thing, of course. I have vivid memories of nasal-laryngeal conflagrations brought about...