The entourage is needed because of the logistical challenges of staging a race that unfolds across daily stages that are sometimes more than 200 kilometers in length, with a total distance of more than 3,400 kilometers this year.
"The logistical demands for staging events of this magnitude made today's decision unavoidable," said Bill Daly, the N.H.L. deputy commissioner.
The panel said there is "unequivocal and overwhelming evidence that Liberia has been actively supporting the R.U.F. at all levels, in providing training, weapons and related materiel, logistical support, a staging ground for attacks and a safe haven for retreat and recuperation, and for public relations activities".
The daily spectacle of Ms. Abramovic in her chair at MoMA is brought back in all its strangeness and excitement, and you also catch a glimpse of the logistical challenges involved in staging something at once so simple and so radical.
Several technical and logistical aspects of LN staging practice could be influencing compliance with practice recommendations.
But logistical challenges at this stage must be starting to look like child's play to the bid leadership compared with the sociopolitical challenges that the Taksim Square demonstrations have laid bare.
Finally, barriers in the implementation stage include logistical complexities, as well as lack of capacity, resources, and sustained political willpower.
Given the logistical challenges and early stages of evaluation for eIMCI, a cluster randomized trial was not feasible for this study.
However, a recent study of staging sequences using logistical regression suggests that PET/CT should be performed first, with EUS used in limited cases for patients with curable disease.
The lawsuit, filed in May, had threatened to alter arrangements for thousands of students at the opening of the school year and to set the stage for a logistical nightmare.
