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i mean, there s the red cross and people giving to the red cross. yeah. a lot of those firms are giving money. and i think we have our benefit. for the marathon, i think they will give a lot of that money away, the tv rights and all that, they re going to give a lot of that for charity. if you stop for a minute and try to imagine the visual of a pack of people jogging through these scenes in staten island or lower manhattan, it s going to be very difficult. all these cops and rescue people, you know, there s just a lot of public infrastructure and resources that get diverted to making that route work. it just seems of secondary importance relative to all of the suffering that s happening in the city. who knows? you also realize, again, just how important great political leadership can be right now. whatever you think about the national implications and all that, what governor christie has gone, what mayor giuliani did, what did not happen in katrina makes such a huge di