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...fact, many participants live in San Francisco, like Isaac Maiava, 18. Maiava, the youngest of seven children, was arrested when he was just 14 for stealing electronics; he dropped out of high school, sold drugs, drank, and says he was a "big liar and a thief" for most of his teenage years. Then, after his mother's death in 2003, Maiava found God. Now studying for his GED, he worries about how to protect his nieces and nephews from from images of sex, drugs and violence on TV. "Everywhere you look, kids follow what they think is cool," he says...
...first few minutes, FX's Thief (Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) seems to be in the same jaunty, crime's-a-spree mold. As in Heist, we begin with a wisecracking crew getting ready to take down a cache of jewels--"Just say no to blow, kids," quips ringleader Nick (Andre Braugher) as he blasts open a vault. But the game quickly gets heavy, and the story more gripping: along the way, Nick's crew finds and steals a pile of cash that turns out to belong to the Chinese Mafia. Revenge is sought, friends turn on each other, and people...
...Thief is about the moral choices of immoral men," says creator Norman Morrill, which is why he cast Braugher. It's a well-observed, sometimes too somber character study, its Southern-gothic mournfulness underscored not just by Braugher's tough, sad performance but also by the setting: post-Katrina New Orleans, littered with abandoned cars and LOOTERS WILL BE SHOT signs spray-painted on plywood. (The show was set and the pilot shot in the city a year before the hurricane.) Like his town, Nick has to restore order from the rubble, and it's not a glamorous job. "This...
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...perhaps the toughest assignment of any Harvard player: directing the offense while being guarded by Penn’s Ibrahim Jaaber, one of the best defensive players in the nation. In Harvard’s first game against Penn in Cambridge, Housman struggled to get past the long-armed thief, turning the ball over nine times in the 81-68 loss. On Friday, Housman had just two turnovers in a season-high 42 minutes of play.“[Jaaber] was trying to read my dribble moves, so I tried to keep it in my right hand, my dominant hand...