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...against Zhu and Kimbara is now on hold. Under the agreement filed this past Thursday, Zhu and Kimbara, who have been under electronic monitoring and a curfew since their arrest in June 2002, will not be prosecuted for a year. If they do not break the law in that span, the indictment will be dismissed...
...represent ground zero. "I hate getting upset," he says. As soot-covered extras in police and military uniforms milled around, Jimeno was reduced to tears by the sight of the too-lifelike rubble pile. "I survived for a reason," he says. "We, as a country, have a short attention span. We don't want people to forget those who died and those who saved...
...Castellanos, for his part, delivered his second straight excellent performance in a Sunday opener. After surrendering a leadoff single in the first, Castellanos did not permit another hit until there were two outs in the fifth, retiring 14 of the 15 batters he faced, including 12 straight, during the span. In all, he allowed four runs (two earned) on six hits in six innings of work. “[Castellanos] looked great today,” Kramer said. “He’s really been on the last couple of starts. He’s keeping the ball...
...knocked in a goal off a Big Red turnover in its own zone with 3:43 to play that made it a 2-2 game. The two goals were the last that Harvard scored until more than four minutes had gone by in the fourth quarter. In the same span, Cornell scored seven straight to take an insurmountable 9-2 advantage. “Their offense came to play and their defense did too,” Cohen said. “Even when you did get a good shot, it wasn’t really a good shot?...
...songs in Take the Lead span a wider divide: Gershwin and Porter tunes laced with, and sometimes remixed as, hip-hop. The plot elements are virtually the same as in High School Musical: the main boy, who must juggle his old extracurricular activity (here it's thuggery) with a furtive itch to express himself through music; the class-conscious blond who needs a comeuppance; and a climax where three crucial events are occurring with implausible simultaneity. In HSM it's a basketball game, a scholarly competition and the final auditions for the show; in Take the Lead a dance contest...