The New York City Marathon is steeped in the city's popular culture, and no part of the course is more celebrated and packed with spectators than the Upper East Side.
Their de facto leader, Finn Glen Powelll), even goes so far as to call them a tribe, celebrating their pack mentality when they jump in to defend their least popular team-mate, who has wrongly picked a fight at their local bar.
I'm guessing that you have been too busy attending to the details and whirlwind of the end of your last semester: your examinations and essay writing, your celebrating and packing.
He prefers drinking beer at a bar to dinner at the Four Seasons, and for his birthday last month, his colleagues celebrated with six packs of Jamaican Red Stripe in an office conference room.
The life of the Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin was celebrated at a packed St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London on Wednesday by family, colleagues and friends, including the singer Cerys Matthews and former foreign secretary David Miliband.
Perhaps most importantly: when you show up late to brunch, order hungover bacon and can't bring yourself to so much as touch your toes, shake it off, then reaffirm your intention and doubly celebrate when you pack a salad and make it to work on time the next day.
Yesterday, I was among the packed congregation that celebrated the life of Steve Turner, subeditor and union leader, who I wrote about when he died, aged 80, in May this year.
But I was struck by the image of the great and celebrated Neil Simon, standing in a packed lobby at a prestigious Broadway opening, alone and unnoticed.
But Smith was struggling with such projections on his 18th birthday several weeks ago, a day he spent packing, celebrating and saying goodbye to friends and relatives as he prepared for a cross-country flight the next morning to the Mets' minor league headquarters in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Lucie, Fla
When President Barack Obama lauded the "incredible heroism" of American doctors who travel to countries such as Sierra Leone to do "God's work" and "keep us safe," on Tuesday, he was celebrating a community packed with Doctors Without Borders volunteers.
