Nikolay Davydenko stuns world No. 1 Roger Federer, above, with a 6-2 4-6 7-5 victory in the semifinals of the ATP World Tour Finals in London on Saturday.

But when Shakur was murdered in Las Vegas in 1996, Bay Area hip-hop went underground.”Since Tupac passed away, everybody pretty much left us alone on the national scene,” said DJ Shadow, a pioneering Bay Area turntablist/trip-hop producer who recently started recording hyphy music. KABUL, Afghanistan Gunmen ambushed a carload of Afghan laborers heading home from a remote U.S. Abductors of a Jordanian Embassy driver said they would kill him unless Jordan pulled its diplomats from Iraq and freed a failed female suicide bomber, Al Arabiya television reported.Sajida Rishawi said on Jordanian television last month that she had tried to blow herself up alongside her husband in hotel attacks in Amman, the capital.A video issued by the little-known group Falcons Brigade showed a man identifying himself as Mahmoud Saedat, a driver kidnapped Tuesday in Baghdad, and three masked, armed militants.A government spokesman said Jordan would not give in to the kidnappers.. He took a break from filming “Seraphim Falls” in New Mexico to appear at the premiere in Westwood.He’s already picked up a Golden Globe best actor nomination (comedy or musical) for his “anti-Bond” role — a degenerate hired killer named Julian Noble.”I didn’t do the film to be the anti-anything,” said a bearded Brosnan, sitting on a couch with his wife, Keeley Shaye Smith. But with rookie Willy Aybar’s first home run his only offensive support, Weaver searched for reasons other than a divisional race for the Dodgers to remain motivated.”We have a lot of young guys trying to prove themselves,” he said.

Both said they thought there must be a limit to the reach of federal authority.Scalia said it was “absurd” and “extravagant” to claim that ditches and storm drains were part of the navigable waters of the United States.There must be a point where the law “says, ‘Stop,’ ” Roberts said. population — has fallen by 40% in the face of strong community opposition to the Iraq war. We were just going to pound it inside.”It’s disappointing we’re going to miss Maggette for so long. troops killed in the Iraq war, according to icasualties.org, a website that tracks casualties in the conflict.U.S. “They have the choice to either set greed aside for once and agree to a fair and equitable contract, or they will face CHAOS.”CHAOS, or “create havoc around our system,” is the union’s term for a strategy of periodic work stoppages. THERE he was, in Winston-Salem, N.C., far from Hollywood and his life as Ryan Atwood on the hit TV show “The O.C.”It was the summer of 2004 and Ben McKenzie was shooting his first movie, “Junebug.” Despite the popularity of the debut season of “The O.C.,” McKenzie was floating around the North Carolina town hiding behind a mustache (for the character, not as a fashion statement), with hardly anyone taking a second glance.”I kind of got away from everything for a little while, which was really nice,” McKenzie, 26, recalled while sitting outside a coffee shop recently in Santa Monica.It’s nothing against “The O.C.” — McKenzie loves the show and credits it for allowing him to be “probably too picky” with movie scripts and only choose ones he’s passionate about, like “Junebug.”The low-budget indie drama, which opens today in Los Angeles and New York, was written by Angus MacLachlan and directed by Phil Morrison (both Winston-Salem natives) and filmed in just three weeks.