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...Police investigating Monday's heist suspect that two robbers were involved; one is thought to have dark hair, tan skin and a local accent, but no witnesses have yet come forward regarding the other...
...coming years might find it easiest to opt for becoming British. Robbers hijacked a security van on its way from Manchester to London Monday morning and made off with about 3,000 blank British passports and visas that were destined for embassies overseas. The Foreign Office said the heist amounted to a "serious breach of security" but insisted the blank documents are unusable because of their high-tech-chip security features. "A blank isn't able to be used for crossing a border," said a Foreign Office representative...
...Marsh's film works best as what he calls a "heist" film - sort of an Ocean's 1350. Using interviews with Petit and his pals, what stills and stock footage as exist and a lot of recreations, he makes something reasonably suspenseful out of the logistics of this not-so-merry band gathering their equipment, rehearsing Petit's act and sneaking into the WTC. But the tightrope walk is a letdown; the conspirator who had a movie camera up there on the roof forgot to turn it on. So the big climax - man on very high wire (or should...
...Bank Job Directed by Roger Donaldson; rated R; out July 15 Based on the 1971 robbery of a London bank, this savory heist film adds spicy photos of aristocrats to the haul. Jason Statham, ever the East End Bruce Willis, leads the amateur cracksmen as they get tangled in about 56 subplots involving MI5, good and bad cops, porn dealers, black radicals and jealous wives. A burly, burrowing pleasure...
...Those lyrics, from Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods come to life in Bryan Andes and Miranda Critz's first-grade classes in New York City's Midtown West Public School 212. Eight years ago Andes and colleague Karl Heist initiated a family studies program for their kindergarten classes. The following year those students, now first graders, embarked upon a curriculum in which they explored a thriving industry in their neighborhood - restaurant row. Then, in 2005, Andes and Heist had a revelation. Why not add another curriculum geared toward the other industry that is a prominent part of the school...