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This Week: Beautiful Thing

Nov. 22, 2009
Beautiful Thing: Back for the third time, New Conservatory Theatre Center reprises its 1998 West Coast premiere (revived the following year) of Jonathan Harvey's tender love story about two working-class boys growing up in a London housing project and the...
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Youngsters compete in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Contestants (L-R) Cooper Barth of West Long Branch, New Jersey, Eboseremhen Eigbe of Galloway, New Jersey, Jacob Bayly Hunter of Sante Fe, New Mexico and Massound Sharif of Albany, New York, all await their turns to compete during the 3rd round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. UPI/Mike Theiler