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(PG-13, 60 mins) See review this issue. Opens wideDEATH SENTENCE(R, 110 mins) Kevin Bacon goes ballistic. Opens wideHALLOWEEN(R, 109 mins) See review this issue. Opens wideLADRON QUE ROBA A LADRON(NR, 100 mins) Two amateur thieves look to avenge the day laborers ripped off by a greedy informercial host. Opens wide.SELF-MEDICATED(R, 107 mins) See review this issue. VillageVITUS(PG, 123 mins) See review this issue. VillageNow playingBECOMING JANE(PG-13, 113 mins) The movie takes as many liberties with the author's life as the rakish Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy) takes with Hathaway's fictional Jane Austen. A cocky Irish lawyer who fights bare-knuckled and smooches whores between bouts, Lefroy is just the diversion our country girl needs. Though Mum (Julie Walters) disagrees, Jane is smitten; faced with a choice between Lefroy and dull-but-honorable Mr.
New Law to Help Schools Crack the Nut
Nurses in city schools had more than 5,000 visits last year from students with mild or severe reactions to food. Recently, Governor Spitzer signed a bill that takes hopes to improve how schools identify, accommodate and treat children with food allergies. WNYC's Fred Mogul has more. PALIN: This is like a Malomar. it's from a company based in Canada REPORTER: Roxane Palin is obsessed with nuts. PALIN: Canada seems to have amazing regulations for peanut awareness and allergen awareness REPORTER: You might be, too, if your kids were allergic to them. PALIN: Look what it says here: it says prepared in a nut-free, peanut-free facility. Now, nothing could make me feel safer than handing one of these to my children. REPORTER: Palin is shopping today in an Upper East Side supermarket, looking for treats for her 8-year-old daughter Amanda, and her 6-year-old son, Ben.
Cubs soar behind LSU duo
Boxers like to claim they are the best "pound-for-pound." In the case of two former LSU Fighting Tigers, they should market themselves as the best pound-for-pound and dollar-for-dollar.
Playing for Major League Baseball's minimum salary (roughly $390,000), south Louisianans Ryan Theriot and Mike Fontenot have captivated the city of Chicago and its Cubs fans.
Diminutive in stature, the longtime friends and teammates have played gigantic roles in what has been a special season in the Windy City. Can a pair of Cajuns help the Midwest's beloved baseball team exorcise the jinx that's plagued it for nearly 100 years?
"It's something that's extremely rare and unique in the game � especially nowadays," Baton Rouge's Theriot told The Times on Monday here at Minute Maid Park.
New School is Ready for Students
The East Irondequoit School District is ready to welcome back students to a brand-new school. Construction at Durand-Eastman Intermediate School is complete. Two-thirds of the school was rebuilt. The rest was renovated. Classrooms are larger, there's updated technology, a new gym, library, furniture and a renovated cafeteria. Parents and students got a chance to tour the new facility Wednesday. About 350 third, fourth and fifth graders will attend Durand. "Very excited to be back; this school is beautiful, it just takes your breath away. It will give us opportunities we never had in the old school," said principal Lori Roe. "This school, the flow of just how we will be able to work together is so different, so it will afford us the opportunities to work with the kids very differently," The school will feature a "hallway of history." It's a photographic timeline dating back to 1914 featuring former students and staff.
New risk of strife as Arabs from Chad resettle in Darfur
TULUS, Sudan - Three years after it was burned to the ground, the village of Tulus in Darfur is springing back to life. Corn and sesame sprout from fertile fields. Children play around newly built huts. Smoke from cooking fires again rises from the land. Problem is, those rebuilding Tulus are not the original inhabitants, who were chased away by pro-government Sudanese militias in 2004 and are afraid to return. Instead, their place has been taken by Arabs from Chad, who recently crossed the border to flee violence in their own country. "It's comfortable here," said Sheik Algooni Mohammed Zeean, 42, leader of 150 Chadian Arabs who in March settled on a grassy plain not far from the ruins of the village's abandoned houses and school. Gesturing toward the fields bearing their first harvest in Sudan, he smiled.
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