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...Tolmie was formed because of an injury, they advanced to the semifinals, losing to Princeton in straight sets, 6-4, 7-6. Similarly, the youthful team of Williams and freshman Brent Latanzi was dropped in the semifinals. But only after a strenous battle, in which the Crimson had a crack at taking both the second and third sets on serve...
...Some of the youthful callers seem at first to be vulgar pranksters, out to make mischief with inane jokes and naughty language. But soon the voices on the line -- by turns wistful, angry, sad, desperate -- start to spill a stream of distress. Some divulge their struggles with alcohol or crack and their worries about school and sex. Others tell of their feelings of boredom and loneliness. Some talk of suicide. What connects them all, says Nancy Helmick, director of the two hot lines, is a sense of "disconnectedness...
...were just lying here and suddenly there was a crack and a bang," said Leonard. "It sounded like someone had thrown in a brick through the window...a good, loud noise." The robber entered the store by breaking its front window, police said...
...Platt said that while Kinko's is the only copying company that is currently being sued, the recent charges also represent a broader attempt to crack down on the problem of illegal copying...
...shorts of scum floated to the top of the meeting's pond. A family of career criminals who'd started out 10 years ago by robbing the houses around them every other week had prostitutes and drug dealers hanging around. A crack house was four blocks north. A local grocery was selling drug paraphenalia as more prostitutes had been pling their trade in a nearby park. Many people began to talk about moving out. Everyone felt frustrated. Where were the police...