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Just one year ago, Benjamin Bratt was playing an accessory on Julia Roberts' red-carpet tour. Now he's commanding his own spotlight with a revelatory performance in Pinero. In this sordid, vibrant and true story, Bratt stars as Miguel Pinero, the Puerto Rican playwright, unrehabilitated ex-con, junkie and cautionary figure. In 1988, 14 years after founding Manhattan's Nuyorican Poets Cafe and gathering acclaim for his Tony-nominated play Short Eyes, Pinero died of cirrhosis...
...Florida, couldn't keep up. Other antibiotics, including doxycycline and that old standby penicillin, are just as effective against the particular strain that was showing up in tainted letters, and a few weeks later, when the cdc recommended that doctors switch to those, Cipro's days in the spotlight were over...
...Costin dead. The July, 2000 incident, which bloodied the floor at a Reading, Massachusetts hockey rink, was front page news for a few days, then mercifully faded from sight. But this week, as Junta's trial for manslaughter drew to a close, the hockey dads were back in the spotlight. Friday evening, after less than two days of deliberations, a jury found Junta guilty of involuntary manslaughter...
...books. So far, it’s been quite a run for the Ivy entries, and not just by the usual suspects, though some of Penn’s wins this year (Georgia Tech, Temple) and even its near-wins (Illinois, St. Joseph’s) have stolen the spotlight...
...national media spotlight focused on the tension between Summers and the Afro-American Studies department drew the Rev. Jesse Jackson to Cambridge Tuesday. Jackson held a press conference at St. Paul’s A.M.E Church in which he expressed his concern over what he said was Summers’ inadequate support for affirmative action...