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...iron bunk and a stainless-steel toilet next to a sink. A cardboard box on the floor, containing papers and letters, and the odd apple or orange complete the decor. As a protective-custody inmate, Simpson is denied access to mess halls, rooftop exercise areas or even the chapel. His only breaks are two hour-long periods of activity in the "freeway" of the corridor. There he can use the public phone, watch TV on a mobile stand and exercise on the bike. Sometimes he talks on the phone and pedals the bike at the same time...
...first days traveling through the very land where millions of victims of Stalin's purges perished in the Soviet Union's system of forced-labor camps. In Khabarovsk he visited a large, privately maintained cemetery. At the entrance to the graveyard, he paid his respects at a small chapel built to commemorate those who had perished in the totalitarianism whirlwind of the '30s. Two young priests were reading the Orthodox "Eternal Memory" service from a prayer book. It was one of many symbolic moments on an odyssey that has become a kind of traveling metaphor: himself a survivor of eight...
...Sooner or later, I suppose, it was inevitable that the Harvard Business School would build itself a chapel," Campbell wrote, in a review last year. "It's already done everything else it possibly could to isolate itself from the rest of the world, wrapping itself around its own navel in a dream of privacy and wealth...
Aguilar says the dean is searching for the familiar in how he designs the School. The idea for the chapel's shape comes from the dean's childhood, Aguilar says. And it lends insight into a man who hates wasting time and is so quick to take the initiative--Whether reforming the Business School curriculum or engineering a hospital merger--that he never lets himself be backed into a corner...
...When he was going to church in Canada, there was the idea of the devil trapping you in the corner," Aguilar says. "So McArthur came up with the idea of a round chapel...