The Ghost

Relationship 1940–1956; The Conundrum of Change ; Losing Empires, Finding Roles: Some Aspects of US-UK Relations Since 1956 ; The Chains of Prometheus: Foreign Policy Constraints in the Nuclear Age ; The Triumphant Generation: America, Britain, and the New World Order; Why We Are in Iraq . There was a profile in Time magazine, which described his hobbies as squash, golf, and the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, “which he and his second wife, Nancy Cline, a defense analyst from Houston, Texas, regularly call upon their guests to perform at the end of one of their famous supper parties in the prosperous Harvard bedroom community of Belmont.”
    I worked my way through the first of what Google promised would eventually prove to be thirty-seven thousand entries about Emmett and Arcadia:
    Arcadia Institution -Roundtable on Middle East Policy The establishment of democracy in Syria and Iran… Paul Emmett in his opening address stated his belief…www.arcadiainstitution.org/site/roundtable/A56fL%2004.htm - 35k - Cached - Similar pages
    Arcadia Institution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Arcadia Institution is an Anglo-American nonprofit organization founded in 1991 under the presidency of Professor Paul Emmett …
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    Arcadia Institution/Arcadia Strategy Group - Source Watch The Arcadia Institution describes itself as dedicated to fostering…Professor Paul Emmett, an expert in Anglo-American…
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    USATODAY.com - 5 Questions for Paul Emmett Paul Emmett , former professor of foreign relations at Harvard, now heads the influential Arcadia Institution …
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    When I got bored with the same old stuff about seminars and summer conferences, I changed my search request to “Arcadia Institution” + “Adam Lang” and got a news story from the Guardian website about Arcadia’s anniversary reception and the prime minister’s attendance. I switched to Google Images and was offered a mosaic of bizarre illustrations: a cat, a couple of acrobats in leotards, a cartoon of Lang blowing into a bag with the caption “soon to be humiliated.” This is the trouble with internet research, in my experience. The proportion of what’s useful to what’s dross dwindles very quickly, and suddenly it’s like searching for something dropped down the back of a sofa and coming up with handfuls of old coins, buttons, fluff, and sucked sweets. What’s important is to ask the right question, and somehow I sensed I was getting it wrong.
    I broke off to rub my aching eyes. I ordered another coffee and another bagel and checked out my fellow diners. It was a light crowd, considering it was lunchtime: an old fellow with his paper, a man and woman in their twenties holding hands, two mothers—or, more likely, nannies—gossiping while their three toddlers played unheeded under the table, and a couple of young guys with short-cropped hair, who could have been in the armed forces or one of the emergency services, perhaps (I’d seen a fire station nearby), sitting on stools at the counter with their backs to me, engaged in earnest conversation.
    I returned to the Arcadia Institution website and clicked on the board of trustees. Up they all came, like spirits summoned from the vasty transatlantic deep: Steven D. Engler, former U.S. defense secretary; Lord Leghorn, former British foreign secretary; Sir David Moberly, GCMG, KCVO, the thousand-year-old former British ambassador to Washington; Raymond T. Streicher, former U.S. ambassador to London; Arthur Prussia, president and CEO of the Hallington Group; Professor Mel Crawford of the John F. Kennedy School of Government; Dame Unity Chambers of the Strategic Studies Foundation; Max Hardaker of Godolphin Securities; Stephanie Cox Morland, senior director of Manhattan Equity Holdings; Sir Milius Rapp of the London School of Economics; Cornelius Iremonger of Cordesman Industrials; and Franklin R. Dollerman, senior partner of McCosh & Partners.
    Laboriously, I began entering their names, together with Adam Lang’s, into the search engine. Engler had praised Lang’s steadfast courage on the op-ed page of the New York Times. Leghorn had made a hand-wringing speech in the House of Lords, regretting the situation in the Middle East but calling the prime