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...happy it’s there for my safety,” he said. More than 22,500 athletes are expected to run the 26.2 mile race today. Every year medical personnel receive upwards of 800 runners who require attention; when temperatures spike, that number can exceed 1,700, according to an assistant commissioner of the state Department of Public Health, Nancy Ridley. Organizers will use hand-held scanners to record the name, age, gender, and medical status of every injured athlete. The information will then be available to event organizers and local hospitals. Family and friends will be able...
...nonprofit organizations—has increased by an average annual rate of 3.4 percent over the past five years. The index measures movements in the prices of goods and services purchased by colleges and universities. In an interview on Monday, Kirby pointed to a “very significant spike in energy costs” as one of the major factors that are driving up expenses for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. —Staff writer Evan H. Jacobs can be reached at ehjacobs@fas.harvard.edu...
...makes her subject to countless gape-mouthed stares.) In the nurturing United Nations dynamic the band aspires to, O is the U.S., and when she moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and pushed to hire producer Sam (Squeak E. Clean) Spiegel, the brother of her then boyfriend, director Spike Jonze, Zinner and Chase reluctantly went along. The trio recalls the writing process--which did not go well--with uncomfortable courtesy, as if they're afraid to say anything that might be misconstrued as an insult and regurgitated later. "There were a lot of crackheads near Sam's recording studio," says...
...City and involves some sort of criminal activity, and all are smart and entertaining: 16 Blocks, also starring Willis, as an alcoholic cop trying to get a witness to safety; Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty, in which Vin Diesel's mobster acts as his own defense lawyer; and Spike Lee's skillfully orchestrated story of a bank heist, Inside Man. None of them require the audience to embrace heavy-duty fantasy or comic-romantic fatuity. They have grit, wit and style, plus a semblance of reality--things popular American movies regularly used to have. Is this a trend...
Time was whena Spike Lee movie was an infallible social blood test: if yours didn't heat up at his take on racial tensions, you probably needed a transfusion. Looking at five of his films (Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Clockers, Crooklyn) years later, though, one can see the camera stylist behind the street-corner Savonarola. Sure, he editorializes with nearly every shot, but he's also a clever fellow at framing the action and getting sharp turns from lots of terrific actors. This joint's worth dropping into...