Mr. McCurry was asked to participate in the project when he was in Turkey shooting the last roll of Kodachrome.
Each morning Drew passes by a mural he painted in a community arts project when he was younger.
Mr. Gutierrez, 33, whose grandparents immigrated to the United States from Mexico, conceived Progreso Financiero as a "social entrepreneuring" research project when he was earning an M.B.A. at Stanford.
Robert S. Mueller III, director of the F.B.I., acknowledged problems in the project when he was asked about it at a House appropriations hearing on Wednesday.
Mr. Bhatia, a 31-year-old graduate student in political science, was working on a completely different project when he was killed by a roadside bomb last month.
New York City, in perilous fiscal straits, appears unlikely to be able to fulfill the $240 million pledge that Rudolph W. Giuliani made for the project when he was mayor.
It was understood that Pierre-Paul was a project when he was drafted by the Giants, who may place more value on a stable of pass rushers than any other N.F.L. team.
Mozgov, viewed as a project when he was signed as a free agent last summer, has been performing the tasks in practice, and the Knicks are hoping they soon translate to solid play in games.
He intended to become a classical pianist, however, and his mother, who had bought him a spinet — an honored piece of furniture in their apartment, in Harlem's East River Projects — when he was ten, may have intended this even more.
'The difficult thing was to stop it being a soppy film about a young girl growing up and give it some edge and danger,' says executive producer Mark Shivas, who started the development of the project when he was running BBC Films.
