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Inside this smallish restaurant, the canary yellow walls with bright green and red accents spoke cheerily, while foreign flags and tapestries hung from every surface and soft reggae music soothe. With a few of their vibrant drinks from the heavy-handed bartender, Rhythm and Spice seemed to virtually breathe an island spirit...
...CAMPUS: Harvard centers around vibrant Harvard Square, the Charles River and the green Longwood Medical Campus. Penn was built in the middle of the Philly ghetto. Sometimes I think that was on purpose...
Some time between turning off the bridge to face the vibrant crowds along First Avenue, and grasping my mother’s hand for a fleeting moment just before mile 18, I changed my mind. I decided that a marathon is about defying expectations and challenging the limits of human achievement. I run in defiance of the voice inside me that says I cannot, and my success reaffirms a deep confidence I have in the human ability to dream the impossible, and to realize such wild dreams. Tragically, I feel that the World Trade Center disaster is testimony...
Running the length of Brooklyn, into Queens, up First Avenue in Manhattan, through the Bronx and then back down Fifth Avenue into Central Park, distinctions between neighborhoods melted away in my mind along with the miles. A vibrant crowd of Italians and Asians, Puerto Ricans and Hassidim, Greeks and Mexicans, whites and blacks lined the course continuously, from start to finish. Running alongside such a crowd, exchanging salutes with a group of police officers, high-fiving a row of wide-eyed children, waving to the passengers in the tram and to the clattering El as its air horn blared...
...feet of 25,000 runners beat like the throbbing pulse of our metropolis, swaying the bridges and drumming down the avenues, the runners and the vibrant throngs that peopled the sidelines were like the lifeblood of a city, beginning to flow once again through its great arteries. Yes, I felt that the marathon was really about a city coming back to life. And as I crossed the finish line in Central Park, the immortal words of a certain song playing nearby convinced me that this must be true: “I’ll make a brand new start...