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...protest against government repression and the country's economic crisis. The march by some 10,000 people - from manual workers to professionals to grandmothers - was well-organized and peaceful. U.S. Wild Fires A blaze the size of Los Angeles burned out of control in the western state of Arizona. More than 30,000 people were evacuated in an area that President George W. Bush declared a disaster zone. Some 2,000 firefighters struggled to ensure it did not overwhelm the town of Show Low, home to 7,700 people. Dry forests, high temperatures and a lack of winter precipitation made...
...baseball career did not take off as well as he had planned, leading him to leave Harvard after his sophomore year to pursue baseball at the University of Arizona. He returned a year and a half later to finish his degree in Cambridge...
After graduating from Harvard, he began working at a shrimp farm in Eritrea. A biology professor with whom he had worked at the University of Arizona had been hired by the biotech firm that ran the farm, and asked Ramsey to come...
Ramsey found his place in the Harvard social scene easily as a member of the Fox Club after his return from Arizona...
State V. sets up its cameras in the opposite camp, with Arizona defense lawyers, but it also gives airtime to prosecutors and, most important, jurors. It's a bit stiffer than Crime, with conventional news narration by Cynthia McFadden, but it's as interesting and better balanced. And it will almost certainly do worse in the ratings. Why? It's on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. E.T.--opposite Law & Order. And Americans will take a fictional prosecution, even in reruns, over a real defense any day. --By James Poniewozik