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...drenched in sweat, completely soaked, after only mile one, and that is very unusual," said Emily Schuster, 25, a New Yorker who had trained for the event since June. "And then somebody collapsed before the halfway point, before even mile 13, and I thought: 'OK, it must be hot, they must be old.' But then at mile 15, there's a stretch where you turn into the sun and run for several miles, and people started dropping like flies. Older, younger, men, women -every couple of steps you saw someone collapsing with ice on their head...
...shortly after noon when Schuster crossed mile 23 - on a corner where several hundred onlookers cheered the racers, shouting "It's all downhill from here!" - and first heard the announcement from a squad car's loudspeaker that the marathon was cancelled. As she neared mile 25, she encountered policemen standing in the middle of the street, urging runners to stop and walk and informing them that it was now just a 'fun run.'" Other runners said they were given even less clear-cut directions from festival officials - some runners said the only notice of the race's cancellation they received...
...While Schuster continued to defend his resolution, veteran committee member Alfred B. Fantini, who drew chuckles from the audience for a forceful delivery that often bordered on shouting, criticized Schuster and Nolan’s proposal “nebulous” and lacking in specifics...
...Moments later, Nolan’s ally, Luc D. Schuster, said he and Nolan had twice sponsored unsuccessful measures to put millions of dollars under the control of principals—money he suggested would be spent directly on students...
...Nolan, Schuster, and former committee member Marc McGovern said the survey should have interviewed those who have never sent their kids to the public schools. But Grassi, Fantini, and committee member Richard Harding said they were more concerned with those in the district than with parents who had always opted for private education...