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...Todd Ostrow, in the ninth position, almost overcame a two-game deficit early in the meet. After losing 9-4 and 9-6, Ostrow mounted an exhilarating comeback, winning the next two games, 9-4 and 9-0. But Parker Sutton regained his composure against the resurging Ostrow to nab the game and match with a 9-6 score. No. 1 flight Siddharth Suchde dropped his second match of the season, losing to Mauricio Sanchez, 9-2, 9-3, 9-0. Captain Ilan Oren remained undefeated this season with a 9-3, 9-0, 9-5 triumph in the second...
...Back in Linyi, Chen's activities were less well received. Hours after meeting Hannah in the Chinese capital in the fall of 2005, Chen was detained by security officials from his hometown, who had driven all the way to Beijing to nab him. For the next six months, he was kept under virtual house arrest. Then, after trying to leave his village without official permission last March, Chen was arrested again. In June, the charges against him were announced and his conviction followed. (Chen's wife Yuan Weijing, Li says, faced similar charges and is now under house arrest...
...grosses don't explain why United 93, Paul Greengrass' meticulous, creepy and critically acclaimed 9/11 docudrama, failed to nab a slot. It pulled in a respectful $31.5 million here, $44.1 million abroad. I'd say that United 93 was snubbed for two reasons: because a lot of people were reluctant, perhaps afraid, to relive 9/11, and because, for the Academy, all Oscar politics is local. Crash proved that last year. It was the ultimate L.A. movie - a drama about car violence on the interracial highway - while United 93 is the ultimate New York movie. Its shot of a passenger...
...hands. U.S. troops try to help Hamed by keeping up patrols in the area and raiding safe houses of the Mahdi Army - which denies any operations in Ghazaliya. But the U.S. raids often come to nothing. Shi'ite militants have a knack for disappearing before U.S. forces can nab them. And the U.S. patrols aren't omnipresent. Much of the time the sheik...
...men’s side placed six fencers on the all-Ivy team, including junior Benji Ungar in epee. Ungar won the men’s individual gold medal at the NCAAs, and later went on to nab the bronze at the junior world championships in Taebacek City, South Korea...