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...prize. The next week, Moscow hosted the Champions' League final between Chelsea and Manchester United. The sparkling event came off with no hitches, defying predictions that Russia's capital wouldn't be up to staging the sport's marquee match, or, for that matter, controlling the barbarian hordes who flew in from...
...satisfying even the most fanciful whim of its well-heeled clientele. Quintessentially, Elliot boasts, can get almost anything, anywhere. The company was once asked, for instance, to procure a dozen albino peacocks for Jennifer Lopez's birthday. When Madonna ran out of her favorite teabags in London, Quintessentially flew some in from Los Angeles. They've arranged luxury expeditions to the North Pole and to the Amazon jungle. When a client managed to get lost while trekking in the latter, Quintessentially arranged a helicopter rescue. On one occasion, the company even rented out the pyramids for a private party...
...flew back to Boston the next day, disappointed but distracted by the final exams and papers on my mind. In the middle of writing a paper, I took a break and went down to the Lowell House dining hall. One of the House masters, Reverend Dr. Dorothy Austin, nervously asked what I thought of the campaign. I told her that I had spent two sweltering summers in Washington for Hillary; that in her Senate office and the campaign research department, I was surrounded by young, energetic people dedicated to someone they believe in; that I knew that thousands of people...
...radar while leading the College. His name only flared up in the student body when unpopular decisions were passed down—primarily those concerning the alcohol policy and transfer admissions.Criticism over both the decisions themselves and the perception of Pilbeam as being out of touch with student desires flew following these announcements.“He’s totally not the type of person to have an authoritative stance on alcohol,” said Katharine Pilbeam ’10, adding that her father, known by many for his droll sense of humor, often makes...
...Venky” Narayanamurti, outgoing dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), was dean of engineering at the University of California-Santa Barbara, he started getting frantic calls from a man named Jeremy Knowles.Knowles, then dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, then flew to California to meet Venky and get his advice about the new Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences.“When he went back to Harvard, I started getting more calls saying, ‘Come to Harvard and meet the president,’” Venky said...