Remember that about a year and a half ago in October of 2004 the Los Angeles Board of Education approved a plan to scale down all the sprawling district's secondary schools and even smaller schools from 350 to 500 students ideally.

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The salvation of the theaters of the former Great White Way was always a promised but ambiguous add-on to the state and city's large-scale redevelopment schemes for the Times Square area, clearly secondary to the size of the real estate deals to be made.

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