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Many runners like Schuster who were nearing the finish line fought through police officials to finish the race; with the finish line almost in sight, they saw no point in stopping. But the third wave of marathon runners behind them had it even worse: By then, emergency crews and empty water cups made finishing the race almost impossible. Brian Hayes, 36, of Springfield, Illinois, first noticed something wrong at the water station at mile number four (water stops are placed every two miles along the route), where he was told he was "too late" to get water. Sweating profusely...
...Cunanan did, Reyes hides in plain sight in Miami, where he chats with a bartender and tries to pick up an older man in full view of his most-wanted poster. As the national media grows obsessed with the manhunt, Reyes begins phoning a tabloid reporter following his story, desperately trying to take control of his own image. "I'm a sympathetic subject," he tells her. "Brilliant. Good-looking. So you let me tell you how it's going down." The tabloid reporter ends the show with a monologue about writing a bestseller entitled Most Wanted which she describes...
...sized human puppet, which Blue stands behind and speaks through, singing his own versions of popular songs and commenting about onlookers as they chance by. “No, I’m not your God,” Newell says to a passer-by who reacted to the sight of the speaking man-sized creation with a shocked “my God!” “I’m lots of things, but your God is not one of them.”Two smaller puppets, fitted with their own microphones and transparent, moving arms...
...seems to derive more meaning from its historical and literary value from its artistic one.The Persian, Indian, and Turkish interpretations of “Layla and Majnun” all agree on the general outline of the story: “driven mad” with love by the sight of a woman named Layla, the poet Qays expresses his longing in verse. Later known as Majnun—or “driven mad”—Qays is forbidden to wed Layla. Although technically married to another, Layla remains faithful to Majnun. Layla?...
...rise is one more insult in the wake of the serial GOP sex scandals in Congress, the failure of George W. Bush's Administration to amend the Constitution to outlaw gay marriage, and a hunch that religious voters register on the Republican radar only when Election Day is in sight...