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...ski vacation used to mean unflattering, bulky outerwear, frequently in embarrassing neon colors. Thankfully, in the past few years a handful of designers, including Prada and Chanel, have aimed to make the slopes more fashionable. The zipper-covered jacket, above, from Escada Sport is sturdy enough for the snow but sleek enough for the city...
...lantern gallery in which pumpkins are carved to look like famous characters from American horror movies. Admission is $22—quite a pretty penny! And grab a friend’s car—Witch’s Woods is located in Westford near the Nashoba Valley Ski Area. http://www.witchswoods.com. Spook-seekers with a taste for the gargantuan should also consider Haunted Overload (“an extravaganza that overloads the senses”) in Exeter, N.H. around an hour’s drive from Harvard Square. Listed as one of the top 13 Haunted Houses...
...More than two years before the CIA agents' stay in Palma, rendition teams had begun to be spotted at the scenes of prisoner transfers wearing black ski masks - a sure sign to onlookers that something odd was happening. Six weeks after the 9/11 attacks, an employee at Karachi International Airport told a Pakistani reporter that a U.S.private jet had arrived to collect a prisoner in a quiet corner of the facility, and was "so mysterious that all persons involved in the operation, including U.S. troops [sic], were wearing masks...
...used for small aircraft, one night in December, 2001, while he was on duty. They were there to collect two Egyptian asylum-seekers living in Stockholm, whose deportation to Cairo had been approved earlier that day by Swedish cabinet members. On board the jet were American men wearing black ski masks - who joined two men in business suits, who introduced themselves as coming from the U.S. Embassy, in Forrell's office - and two Egyptian officials; a subsequent Swedish parliamentary investigation confirmed the two other men were Egyptian officials. The prisoners were transferred within an hour, and the Gulfstream flew...
Some might point to a $27,000 ski trip request in order to discredit that number, but for the most part according to Finance Committee Chair Lori M. Adelman ’08, requests are merited and within reason. “Very rarely does a student group ever apply for funding that in an ideal world they shouldn’t receive,” Adelman said. “Our policies in funding, such as our decision not to fund fees for visiting speakers, are products of budget constraints. We have to prioritize to make the most benefit...