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...time on the road. He goes to Italy, where he still personally oversees the production of his $500-a-pair shoe collection; to the Canary Islands, to visit his 90-year-old mother; to the United States, where most of his customers live. He also travels from his Georgian home in Bath, England, where he stores some 10,000 pairs of what he affectionately calls his "stupid shoes," to his office on the fashionable King's Road in Chelsea, London...
...material life of a college student is arguably as free of want as could be. And not by chance, either. Our comfort is dearly bought at tens of thousands of dollars per semester: the cost of lodging us in Georgian-revival buildings with working fireplaces, feeding us with the best that institutional cuisine has to offer, wiring us to the Web from anywhere on campus and putting a host of expensively-trained minds at our service. We live within walking distance of the largest university book collection in the world, and like kings we entertain celebrities, heroes and despots...
...only professional school on Harvard’s new frontier sits in neo-Georgian glory on the Charles River bank facing the rest of the University, with only one building turned towards the campus of Harvard’s future—Allston...
...time on the road. He goes to Italy, where he still personally oversees the production of his $500-a-pair shoe collection; to the Canary Islands, to visit his 90-year-old mother; to the United States, where most of his customers live. He also travels from his Georgian home in Bath, where he stores some 10,000 pairs of what he affectionately calls his "stupid shoes," to his office on the fashionable King's Road in Chelsea, London. Blahnik's "stupid shoes" have traveled a long way too since he first started making them in the 1970s. They have...
...their group are so-called Chechen Islamists, an international mix of al-Qaeda operatives (including many North Africans) trained in Afghanistan as well as in camps set up in the Caucasus before the Sept. 11 attacks. The al-Qaeda camps in Georgia's Pankisi Valley - which until a Georgian security crackdown last year was a lawless haven of guerrillas, drug dealers and kidnappers - specialize, says Jacquard, in training recruits in the use of explosives and in basic chemical terror, including the poisoning of water and food supplies. Indeed, Georgian security sources say the al-Qaeda operatives in the Pankisi region...