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...play my miles right, in fact, I need never leave the plane. As soon as I embark, I can buy things -- key chains, duty-free perfumes, souvenirs and razors -- and put them on my credit card. Then I can acquire more goods on the Airfone, charged to my special phone carrier. By the time I land, I might have earned enough miles to get the next leg free. I can even earn tickets while six miles high! (Vertical miles don't count, however, and horizontal ones are not what they seem: the Frequent Flyer is the only bird of prey...
With Byron De La Beckwith about to live out his last days in jail and the United States about to embark on an economic relationship with Vietnam, a decade--and with it, a mindset--has passed on. It is left to us at Harvard to follow the lead of the rest of our nation, and to turn the six on our daily planners upside-down to reveal that it is, in fact, a nine...
Before we embark on much-needed vacation...
...scratching his head and watching his successor undo his "bold" idea. Thirty years later, as hordes of Kennedy School professors stake their careers on cleaning up the economic fallout of such "hairbrained schemes" (as those who deposed Khrushchev referred to this plan, among others), their president is preparing to embark on the same course of bureaucratic juggling...
...difficulties are old news--and quite frankly, somewhat silly. When has an employer ever acknowledged fiscal prosperity during contract negotiations? If other universities, like MIT and B.U., can pay their police patrollers fairly, then surely the wealthiest university in the world can. Especially when that university is set to embark on the largest fund drive in higher education history...