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...Aside from his academic endeavors, for Segal, running was paramount. As a member of the track team, he ran his first Boston Marathon in 1955, and continued to run the marathon until 1975, according to the Boston Athletic Association...
...active recognition on the University’s part that the covered procedures, when needed, are fundamental to a student’s health. In order to ensure that such procedures can be provided at minimal cost to students, the ability to pool costs through insurance is paramount. Allowing students to opt out of fees for given services, however, undermines this end and could potentially lead to gaping holes in health coverage, leaving students unable to access much-needed care. While the amount of the rebate in question here is minimal—even Harvard Right to Life (HRL) admits...
...Paramount logo dissolves into some kind of mountain. Every Indy films opens this way, from one monument to another. (As Veronica Geng wrote in a review of the first movie, "Spielberg" is German for "play mountain.") In Raiders the logo became a mountain in South America; in the second film, Temple of Doom, a bas-relief on a Chinese gong; in The Last Crusade a big boulder in Utah. This time, suggesting more modest aspirations, or maybe kiddingly deflecting the audience's gargantuan expectations, it's a weeny prairie dog hill, from which a critter emerges just before being nearly...
...simply a case of the pot calling the kettle black. And her willingness to take her grievances to court poses a dangerous precedent. To use classroom dialogue as grounds for litigation threatens to chill free discourse within the classroom, stifling the intellectual exchange that is paramount to education...
...woman there, and they had me read side after side of audition pages. I didn’t think much of it, but like a week later my parents sat me down and said, ‘The lady in your mock audition class was the head of Paramount casting. They’re ready to put you in movies if that’s something you want to do.’”Despite breaking into the business with relative ease, it has taken Segel a while to get his leading role. Segel is probably best-remembered...