It was hard to leave, even after the lights went down and the supporters began to file away.

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The lights went down, just to reduce the heat, I think.

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The lights went down again, the horn player rebooted, and a spotlight revealed Mayweather and Cotto standing in opposing box seats, like a boxing version of Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets.

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As the lights went down one last time, Ebert would have loved it if all those people sitting in the dark and hoping for the best understood that his approach to movies was big enough, openhearted enough to embrace far more than the movies he'd loved all his life.

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But correspondents say it was the measure to stop driving through red and amber lights that went down badly with motorists.

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"The skies were lighting up, you could hear explosions, wires were coming down, trees were coming up and the lights went out, " she said.

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There were no large lights on-site to add the rescue efforts as the sun went down.

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