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...himself.In late December, he traveled to the country’s capital to conduct research. But Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organization alleged that he was “taking government information.” As he attempted to leave the country, intelligence officers pulled him off a plane and threw him in jail for five days.“Officers in the cell were drunk, abusive, and volatile,” Bakshi says. He managed to make a cell phone call to a Zimbabwean acquaintance, who in turn alerted the U.S. embassy and Bakshi’s family...
...people of the last 25 years in helping to shape Harvard’s constructive influence on the world.” A prodigious fundraiser, Stone “would hear about an Arabian sheik who had some remote connection to Harvard, and he would hop on the next plane there,” longtime Corporation member Hugh D. Calkins ’45 told The Crimson in 1985. “I don’t want you to give ’til it hurts,” Stone would tell potential donors, according to former University treasurer...
...after he formally notified the Corporation and other senior staffers of his resignation, Summers boarded a plane for a long-planned ski trip to Park City, Utah, despite a vigorous debate over canceling the trip among his senior staff members, according to a source close to Mass. Hall. He was smiling on his way out the door...
...close with the advice that my time here has taught me: open your eyes while you still have the chance, and really see what’s been around you for four years. Once you do that, you can proudly put on your suit, jump on a plane, or buy books for graduate school to begin to fulfill the legacy of excellence that you nurtured at our dear, imperfect Harvard. Monica M. Clark ’06, who was a Crimson executive editor in 2005, is a history and literature concentrator in Currier House...
...York Times columnist has survived a plane crash in Uganda and an assault by drunken soldiers in Ghana...