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The Roots to give all in S.F. New Year's Eve

Dec. 27, 2009
When the Roots played Davies Symphony Hall earlier this year, the long-running Philadelphia hip-hop outfit turned the home of the San Francisco Symphony into the city's most happening party venue. Marching down the aisles, riffing on Black Sabbath's "Iron...
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler