Easily my most famous old Harvard classmate - Fareed Zakaria
Beautiful restaurant (A Voce) at Time Warner blding overlooking Columbus Circle (I want to say I'm certain of that, but I'm not).
Was nice to see him again after a few years. We started our PhDs in Harvard's Government department in the same year - 1986, along with Minxin Pei, Debra Spar, Andrew Sullivan and Allison Stanger. Quite a year that was, and it's always been very cool to link up with individuals since (getting Allison to join Wikistrat's community of analysts today as well!).
Also spent good chunk of morning with Amar Bakshi, editor of his GPS site. It was very nice to finally meet him in person after working the GPS posts with him these past few weeks. Always good to put face with voice.
Main topic of both meets was naturally Wikistrat. Secondary topic was our planned crowdsourced book, which CEO Joel Zamel and I spent a lot of time discussing this morning with my - and now Wikistrat's - lit agent.
Carried out from Virgil's at Times Square tonight. A personal tradition.
We head down to DC on train tomorrow morning for two days of meetings. Gonna have to pen GPS post on train. It will be on EZ after second Greece bailout. Not my favorite subject, but WS community did nice job with it, with our Euro contigent sounding off very robustly!