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...Well, not I exactly. We are about to circumambulate the Kaaba. The crowd of pilgrims is an utter crush, completely filling the mosque. Most are waiting to do their rounds, others hang about, talking, praying, sleeping. Male pilgrims are dressed identically in an ihram, two pieces of unstitched, seamless white cloth, one wrapped around the waist, the other across the chest and right shoulder. It is meant to dissolve the differences between rich and poor - though the first piece is usually secured by a money belt, and some are definitely weightier than others - while also giving a sense of mortality...
When the opportunity for a wink, a smile, and seamless progress did not exist, Knowles was not afraid to cross colleagues who failed to stay on board. Three times in his deanship, he appointed trusted professors in unrelated fields to take over departments he believed were troubled—he deployed Professor of Music Christoph J. Wolff to oversee Linguistics in 1993 and Sanskrit in 1995, and just last year named Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber to take over Visual and Environmental Studies after removing the prior chair, Ellen Phelan, when she refused to resign...
...Summers announced his selection of Hyman as provost, touting the importance of a seamless partnership between Harvard’s top two administrative posts...
...homage to Iggy Pop’s “I am a Passenger,” and Benson astutely captures the California post-punk movement and adds to that Beach Boys influences on “I’m Easy.” The fusion is seamless and the result is supremely infectious music. Over the course of a week, I could not help but warm to the album—it has now become a staple in my CD changer—even if I remain cold to Benson’s performance personality. Benson hardly ever...
...rendered the compartmentalized approach obsolete. "That little piece of information from an FBI field office in, say, Los Angeles could be crucial when combined with information coming in from Pakistan or the Philippines," says L. Paul Bremer, chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism. "The intelligence needs to be seamless between the international and domestic, and it's certainly not seamless...