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Controversy comes naturally to director Oliver Stone - particularly when it concerns movies about presidents. In 1991, JFK envisioned a Daley Plaza assassination incorporating a government conspiracy and multiple shooters. In 1995, Nixon theorized as to what was to be found on those missing minutes from the White House tapes (a revelation about a covert CIA operation in Cuba that was launched during the Eisenhower years, was known of by Nixon, and subsequently led to the killing of President Kennedy...
...School dean Graham T. Allison ’62 recalled that he first met the South Korean native when he arrived at the Kennedy School as a Master of Public Administration student in 1983. “He shook my hand and said, ‘My name is JFK, just from Korea,’” Allison said. At the start of his own speech, Ban said his experience meeting Kennedy as a teenager inspired him to pursue a career in diplomacy. After serving in his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ban spent...
...other day I got a call from a friend in Europe. He was both frantic and furious. He had just been turned back at New York's JFK airport and sent home on the first flight. He missed his son's wedding - the son is an American citizen. The FBI at JFK was courteous but would only tell him he was on a terrorist list. Nothing the man could say helped. Was he on Maryland's list, now an undesirable alien and permanently excluded from the United States? Probably not, but in this era of secret evidence, who knows...
Frequent Flying. British Airways adds daily service to Venice, Italy, from Heathrow's Terminal 5, starting Oct. 26. JetBlue will offer daily service from Orlando, Fla., to Bogotá, Columbia, with fares beginning at $99 one-way, starting Jan. 29, 2009. Emirates' flight on its A380 from JFK to Dubai goes from three times a week to daily starting...
Home-Field Advantage. Clear, the company that pre-screens subscribers and gives them fast access through security in 18 U.S. airports, including Logan, JFK and Los Angeles International, has extended its service to select sports stadiums. Fans of the Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, and Denver Broncos can now sign up with Clear and get fast-pass access to their stadiums. To get a Clear card, customers pay $128 a year and submit to a one-time security screening, which includes iris and fingerprint images. It's a little Big Brother, but if you're the impatient sort...