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Untangling this mess is mind numbing, and that's the idea. "When you look at the people and networks involved, you quickly realize that the apparent lack of structure and seemingly random intersection of operatives is very much intentional," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. "They don't want police to be able to follow one person to another and follow the trail back up to someone calling the shots. In reality, it's a hell of a lot more amorphous than that...
...athletes, have better chances of getting admitted than the general pool, and, beyond that, admission is a matter of chance. College admissions officers often say that they could have easily accepted 2,000 other applicants and had an equally impressive class. Harvard is a false meritocracy, skewed and somewhat random. With that knowledge, one would expect students to show more humility, an acknowledgement of the imperfections inherent in the school’s constant applications and rejections. But there is little to be found...
...made his Harvard debut at the Crimson Key talent show—freshmen would remember him as the very last performer, who received at least three proposals from random women before he finished his soulful rendition of “The Way You Look Tonight.” He says the attention has died down since that night, but then again, he’s no stranger to fame...
...space reopened tentatively last Thursday, under a list of strict new rules that many experts have been demanding for more than a decade: banning curbside check-in or parking, forbidding family and friends to accompany passengers to the gate, having security personnel check all planes before passengers board, conducting random searches of flight crews and equipment, and prohibiting the transport of cargo or mail on passenger jets...
...here requires some willed sangfroid because living here also requires, more than anywhere else in America, an exhausting everyday vulnerability. We travel on subways packed shoulder to shoulder with exotic strangers close enough to smell their hair, and in taxis we put our lives in the hands of other random strangers who may or may not speak our language or know where they're going. We walk down sidewalks insanely dense with people and data, sidestepping peddlers, beggars, dog turds and gaping steel holes that descend into basement caverns. We live in a teeming throng, exposed. And we like...