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The Boeing 767 jumbo jet is fresh off the shop floor, a sleek $138 million model made to order for Continental Airlines. But its pilot on this test drive is a little rusty and nervously wipes a hand on his khakis as he glides in to land on runway 14L...
But on a more somber note, he added, “As Aeneas to Rome, as Moses to the Promised Land, as John Harvard to the blessed banks of the Charles, so you are called to the path of truth.”
The allusions suggested that the search for truth is difficult—Moses died before entering the Promised Land, Aeneas was not able to found Rome and Harvard died of tuberculosis less than a year after landing in Charlestown.
It began in controversy and ended in closure - or, as the French say, cloture. Arguments at the Cannes Film Festival are usually about which film deserved to win or whether the blindingly bright days in this Riviera Eden are just a smidge too cool. This time the world impinged on...
Caro's obsession, on the other and safer hand, has produced three classic works about power, four if you're counting his book on Robert Moses. I certainly am. We are not talking about an obsessive-compulsive disorder--some helpless yearning that erupts in incessant hand washing, the counting of...