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When Hunt failed to stop, officer Robert Lawlor chased the car along Powell Street, Freeman Street, Amory Street, Dummer Street, Commonwealth Avenue, over B.U. Bridge, and to Memorial Drive in Cambridge, where Lawlor lost track of the automobile...
...Freeman's reaction was extraordinary. The audience shouted on and on, and she just sat on the track, overwhelmed, letting it wash over her. Everyone was crying and shouting; there were tears on Press Row. Freeman sat there and slowly took off her shoes. She felt that she was among friends, and that's what she does among friends. She sits down and takes off her shoes...
...cosmology surrounding the race got even weirder after the dust had settled. Freeman's individual gold, the first ever won by an indigenous Australian, turned out to be the 100th gold awarded to the country overall. It fairly announced, "Time for a new start." And people were buying into that. After the race, Freeman said, "I'm sure what has happened and what I symbolize will make a lot of difference to people's attitudes. It will change attitudes in the street and in the political forum." An outsider might have thought: fat chance. But by having already spoken...
...humility, bristliness and tenderness--but also cast Braugher, a specialist in depthful, surprising characters. Fresh out of Juilliard, Braugher was introduced in the 1989 Civil War film Glory as a Harvard student turned soldier. The neophyte didn't even know what the phrase "hit your mark" meant; star Morgan Freeman gave him a "five-minute crash course in how to act." He has since done film, TV and stage turns in roles from Henry V to an ex-con/karaoke singer in the current Duets...
Novell dished to me that the Russians were arrogant, and if any more American swimmers gave her attitude, she'd "push their cuticles back to their elbows." Just the day before, she had given Cathy Freeman acrylics, and now feared the extensions cost Freeman some time out of the starting blocks in the 200-m race, where she came in seventh. That's Olympic-level manicurist gossip...