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George, Without belaboring the financial connotations of supporting an obviously bullish candidate, I just want to say that for me personally Mark Warner seems like a guy who can spread the positive excitement of Pamplona at dawn and still protect meadows for the Ferdinands among us to smell the flowers. Adelante! Brady Earnhart (electronic mail, July 2, 2001). Editor's Note: This year's El encierro, or the running of the bulls, began on Saturday, July 7. For eight consecutive mornings, throngs of thrill-seeking pilgrims sing a prayer to San Fermin to protect them from the massive creatures that rocket through the narrow streets of Pamplona, Spain. Brady ran with the bulls once in 1983 and again (the morning the picture was taken) in 2000. He is planning on getting there next year again -- "still a thrill," he says, "though it's gotten to be quite a mob scene and at any rate it's the dancing in the streets all day & night you really go for." "Although Ernest Heming way popularized Pamplona's running of the bulls in 1927, the San Fermin fiesta is 400 years old. As in his fictional account in 'The Sun Also Rises,' there was blood in the streets [this year]. 'It couldn't have gotten worse,' said [Tom] Gowen, who is from Seville - New Jersey, not Spain - 'because of the way the bulls got separated in the curve.' He knocked back a cognac with milk to steady his nerves. Since the 1920's, bulls have killed 13 runners. The last was in 1995,
when a young American fell down and then stood up instead of rolling into
a ball. This time, even seasoned runners got caught out [as six people were
badly gored]" (AP - Pamplona, Spain, The Daily Progress, Charlottesville,
Virginia, July 8, 2001).
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