Word: droving
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...them, they were on their cell phones. What I found strange was that they always kept to themselves. Even if someone got in the pool, they got out." Another neighbor, Nancy Coker, 36, saw them getting into limos late at night, even though the car that neighbors said they drove was a gray Toyota Camry, early '90s vintage. "A week ago, I was coming home between 12 and 1 a.m. from a club. I saw a limo pick them up. It wasn't the first time. In this neighborhood you notice stuff like that. In the past couple of months...
They evidently arrived in Boston the previous Sunday, drove back to Portland and then flew again to Boston. But this would have increased their exposure to airline security, which they had to clear once in Portland and again in Boston, since US Airways and American Airlines operate from opposite ends of the terminal. Yet, says Chitwood, "if these guys carried out this attack the way they did, they had a reason to be up here, but who the hell knows what...
...although we may not realize it yet, this is a moment of truth for Harvard University as well, and for its oh-so-sophisticated student body. For 30 years now, since the Vietnam War drove ROTC from campus and made love of country seem unfashionable and out of date in fair Cambridge, Harvard students have maintained a fashionable, post-patriotic pose that regards national pride with suspicion or outright disgust. The Harvard-spawned ruling class, fanning out across New York and Washington and Hollywood each year, often seems to disdain the people and the nation that it aspires to govern...
...return by capturing Jerusalem. In fact, it is precisely because of those associations that Osama bin Laden refers to the U.S. not as "imperialists" or even "the Great Satan," but simply as "crusaders" - casting himself as a latter-day Salah el-Din (or Saladdin), the man who eventually drove the Christian occupiers from Jerusalem...
...become a different person since I'd written them," Dylan recalls, "and, frankly, they mystified me." The members of the Grateful Dead, however, loved the old songs and wanted to play some of them with Dylan. The realization that he had grown so estranged from his art drove Dylan to despair. "At that point, I was just going to get out of it and everything that entails," he says...