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While the search was in progress, calls for more openness might easily have been dismissed as the product of a naturally curious Harvard community. But now the search is over, and the final result is known to all--the curiosity factor has been eliminated. We can now ask, with the benefit of hindsight, whether the search committee's secrecy was a necessary evil or an excessive obsession...
Mazer said she has doubts about this ideal vision of the city-wide senior center. "How are they going to integrate the people from North Cambridge together with the others will be a curious effort," she said...
...about one's business. People become passers by, moving through neutral spaces between private point and private point, between home and office, insulating themselves from the unexpected. The Conscience of the Eye is an attempt to explore the origins and implications of this condition of insulation, to explain the curious feeling of unconnectedness that is familiar to anyone who has passed a homeless man on a grate, or observed through plate-glass windows the comings and goings of strange offices and apartments...
...allied warplanes, most of which fly out of Saudi Arabia, to reach. But they can be, and have been, bombed from Turkish bases that the Ankara government, after some hesitation and at considerable internal political cost, has agreed to let the U.S. use for offensive purposes. In a curious twist, two dozen Iraqi fighters and transport planes landed at airfields in Iran last week. The pilots may have defected or been seeking safe refuge from allied planes; it is also possible that Iraq has struck a secret deal with Iran to keep the planes there until the war is over...
...Brokaw was envious as well as curious. "How did CNN manage to stay on the air?" he asked Bernard Shaw, the cable network's anchorman, in an unusual intermural interview. Shaw hesitated. "Let me take a pass on your question," he said. "The next time I see you I'll explain...