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...spent a lot of time with the Tarahumara, a society of master runners who live in obscurity in Mexico. I'd never heard of them before. How do they manage to still stay so secluded, and what did you do to get them to trust you? They stay secluded by remaining down in the depths of this vast network of canyons. One reason they haven't blazed across the competitive circuit is because our kind of running is really stupid and foreign to them. We bust out as fast as we can from gun to tape, and the Tarahumara...
...March of 1959. A SECOND ADMISSIONThe select upperclassmen that were chosen to inhabit the newly-constructed residence were charged with the task of establishing a unique House character. “Creating a new House is an adventurous undertaking,” Quincy’s first master John M. Bullitt ’43 said in 1958. “We want active students to participate in building a House worthy of the other seven,” Bullitt said.In this competitive House application process, Quincy’s first undergraduates were personally interviewed by Bullitt, who, according...
...three main private TV channels) and, perhaps most intriguingly, with his ability to transform his personal whims into a disturbingly entertaining public discourse in a democracy of 58 million people. But his critics - and they do manage to get airtime in Berlusconistan - believe that the 72-year-old master manipulator may have triggered a news cycle that could actually lead to his political demise. (See Berlusconi's worst gaffes...
...Nagai, the nonprofessional kid chosen for Russell, needed a bit of coaching. Since Docter had chosen as his co-star in Monsters, Inc. Mary Gibbs, who was all of 2½ at the time, he's a past master at working with kids. "When Jordan had to be excited," Docter says, "he would get maybe 50%. So I'd tell him, 'Run around the room, run back here and say the line - ready, set, go!' We'd do it one line at a time like that." For a scene in which Russell is cradled and tickled by a giant South...
...FARROW ends her Master Cleanse for Darfur...