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...Once Amram and Petri were chosen to write the script, they sat down with Tony Parise, who has been the Pudding’s professional director since 1996, to identify those characters who would survive to be in the production. They then held a marathon meeting early in the fall to conceive the entire plot and structure. Now the two are working on their fourth draft.“Over J-term, writing will really kick into high gear,” Amram says. “That’s when rehearsals start. It’s a totally...
...will take her position on a permanent basis will be named the dean for administration and finance, the post previously held by Brett C. Sweet. Gorodentsev, an avid long-distance runner who wakes up at 5:05 most mornings for her regular runs, believes in taking on the full marathon if she’s even going to try.‘A UTILITY PLAYER’At a recent meeting for department administrators, FAS officials said they were interviewing candidates “who would be committed to Harvard and hopefully wouldn’t leave?...
...True, athletes have overstepped the bounds for as long as games have been played: U.S. runner Fred Lorz hitched a ride in a car to win the 1904 Olympic marathon in St Louis; it's 90 years since a handful of Chicago White Sox players threw baseball's World Series. But in hard times, many sports have a history of showing the way. One of the reasons we follow teams is for the neat shot at resolution it can provide. Whatever else you may be struggling with in your life, watching your team fight another fairly and by the same...
...pioneer of the telethon - an indelibly American tradition that has since been adapted around the world to benefit various charities. But the first telethons managed to do without Lewis' particular brand of boosterism for a good four years after their debut in 1951, when a "television fund-raising marathon" - you can see why the name was shortened - aired to help raise money for victims of cerebral palsy. The event pulled in the then whopping amount of $276,408 and marked the creation of United Cerebral Palsy Inc. and its annual Weekend with the Stars telethons. The Easter Seals telethon...
...debut on national stage of prompts a less-than-laudatory look back at • father of says book is being written by, and that "she e-mails me quite frequently" with questions like, "How many points did I score here?" or "When did we go to the Boston Marathon?" so said tome promises to thrill connoisseurs of inconsequential details about sports • speaking engagement is accepted by to address a conference of global investors in Hong Kong, but it's not till Sept. 23, so there's still plenty of time to cancel and deny having known anything about...