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However, one must account for opportunity cost. Not every T rider has the facile assuredness of Jeffrey S. Bramson 08, who used his Tae Kwon Doe black belt skills to fend off a mugger on a New York City subway. A mugger attempted to steal a fellow riders purse at a stop, and Bramson tripped the thief, grabbed the purse and handed the purse back to the woman...
True, placing a certified black belt in each car isnt a bad solution, and cell reception for mugging victims is probably a more feasible solution. However, if cell phones can be used in the T, people will use the rare time previously invested in doing nothing to carry on long and loud conversations about, well, nothing. Bramson predicts that the new cellular presence will make people more angry and more likely to start fights. Everyone will be more distracted and irritated, said Bramson. Looking forward to more subway saves, he said, I better get my game face...
Johnson’s plans further down the road are more distinct: in fifteen years, he hopes to have a few feature films under his belt, with funding to do another one. “I want to be the next Hal Hartley,” he says. “Never made an Oscar, never made a ton of money at the box office. But he’s doing it how he wants to do it and getting by that way, so that’s how I see myself.” Until then, Johnson contents himself...
...degree in History and Literature, he went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art on a Fulbright Scholarship. Then, after a few years of struggling for work in New York, he started to get some breaks. Three decades later, he has over 30 movies under his belt, four Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, two Academy Award nominations, and several starring roles on Broadway...
...Xuong Lu made sure, though, that his children embraced their Indochinese heritage. Victor did so with particular verve. He eagerly took up martial arts?winning a black belt in kung fu by the time he was 17?and delighted his father by participating in Chinese lion dances at local festivals in Los Angeles. As a teenager he'd got a Chinese warrior's tattoo on his left arm. A close grade-school friend, Arturo Fematt Jr., recalls that Victor tried to persuade him to get one, too. "I used to joke with him: 'Oh, man, you know...