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...Curiously, according to Ghost Plane, the renditions teams left fingerprints in several places along their globe-trotting trail. They called home from their cell phones. In January 2004, a CIA team flying on a Boeing Business Jet, registered to Premier Executive Transport in Massachusetts - which Grey said appeared to list only one employee, and which has refused comment to Grey and other journalists - bedded down at the five-star Marriott Son Antem resort in Palma on Majorca, the Mediterranean island, after a long, grueling day: they had flown prisoners under cover of darkness from the Moroccan capital Rabat to Kabul...
...what we were missing. Those priests of illusion have much wisdom butter to spread. One of them is writing a historical novel about a love triangle in the Courts of Vienna...entirely in his head! And another has risen from poverty to be one Boston’s premier adult party planners, throwing themed sleeping-bag galas under the Coop seven decadent nights a week...
Finally, there is the matter of pride and the tradition itself. Harvard is notorious for thinking of itself as the premier institution of higher education in America, if not the world. Being led by someone who went to some other institution may insult that pride and hit us all in the gut, no matter how wise and learned that new leader might be. At the end of the day, something would not feel right if our president was a Yalie...
Over the course of a long career, Barenboim has both played with and conducted the world’s premier orchestras, most recently the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which he left last July after a 15-year tenure...
Last month marked the premier of 02138 Magazine. The publication is about as subtle as a falling brick. It prattles like a man suffering from a mid-life crisis who wishes he were still in college. Yet no college experience today, not even that of fair Harvard, can possibly extend to an entire lifestyle, as the magazine suggests. 02138 is the self-billed chronicler of “The World of Harvard,” but this is all metaphysics. The magazine claims to promulgate a distinctly “Harvard sensibility.” What that is supposed...