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Oscar sees his current band's mission as simple: defending the Cuban sound. In 10 to 15 years, adds the bandleader Jesús, there won't be any Cuban music left on the island. It will all be in foreign countries, stagnant nostalgia acts like the kind that spun off from the Buena Vista Social Club album. That seems a dire prediction, but a Thursday night in Havana makes you wonder how Cuban music will survive. On Avenue G, the roqueros gather to get high and watch rock videos on makeshift outdoor screens. On the Malecón in front...
...Prior to founding In The Running, Sprague viewed running as a “selfish activity,†but this passion would become the very basis of her philanthropic mission...
...Though the descent ended in a face-plant, Sprague’s completion of the Antarctica marathon in March highlighted the global nature of her philanthropic mission to run a marathon on all seven continents. Beginning in Beijing in October 2006 and ending in Queensland, Australia this past July, Sprague holds the record as the youngest person to run 26.2 miles on every continent...
...addition to her post-graduation work as an analyst at a New York-based investment firm, Sprague began to participate in marathons, and what began as a curious mingling of travel and running turned into a personal mission to run a marathon on all seven continents...
...September 2006, Sprague convened with a group of Harvard graduates to form In the Running. Though the organizers initially set modest fundraising expectations, Sprague’s mission provided a compelling cause for donors...