This elite detachment of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra labors through a crowded concert and opera season, then plays at festivals in Vienna and Salzburg, where things may become even more hectic.
But none of the reports included a striking detail: that support consisted of an elite detachment of military-trained D.E.A. special agents who joined in the shootout, according to a person familiar with the episode.
"Lebanon" begins when Shmuel, a new gunner, joins a tank crew of three other young conscripts sent across the border into the south of the country as artillery backup to an elite detachment of paratroopers making their way northward after a devastating Israeli airstrike designed to clear their path.
No corner of Egypt better symbolised the political elite's detachment from their population under the old regime, and today nowhere better symbolises the stuttering, contradictory progress of the country's ongoing revolution, where political division, lack of accountability and a bitter battle between street and state still remain.
The hypocrisy of Republicans and obtuse detachment of elite punditry in these matters follow all too familiar patterns.
An hour later, Indonesia's elite counterterrorism force, known as Detachment 88, descended on a small house nearby.
Security was tightened during the team's visit, and a detachment of the elite guards of Jalal Talabani, the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, remained afterward and forbade access to the field.
Analysts say operations by Detachment 88, the elite U.S.- and Australian-trained counterterrorism squad formed shortly after the Bali blasts, have helped cripple Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian offshoot of Al Qaeda responsible for the bombings.
Were my articles, as one emailer implied, symptomatic of the detachment the privileged elite who read (and write for) the Times of India feel from the daily struggles of Indians for political change and transformation?
Santoso, who has evaded police on Sulawesi for four years, commands a small but committed terrorist network throughout the country, and has been locked in conflict with Detachment 88, the elite counter-terrorism division of the Mobile Brigade, calling on his followers to assassinate its members.
Schamus makes his home in one of the academy's most cloistered corners, where film theorists, cultural critics and philosophers formulate critiques of cinema and capitalism from the detachment afforded by an elite discourse that's often impenetrable to nonspecialists.
