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...Berger, who graduated from Harvard Law Schoolin 1971, is a Washington attorney. During theCarter administration, he was deputy director ofpolicy planning in the State Department. Bergeradvised Clinton on foreign policy during thecampaign...
Lake backed into the campaign. Last fall he was writing a book about how Republicans had managed to turn foreign policy against the Democrats in voters' minds, and how Democrats might do better. He interviewed his former deputy at policy planning, Sandy Berger, who was directing the candidate's foreign policy staff. Berger implored his old boss to act on his theories rather than write them up. After meeting with Clinton, Lake set to work developing a major foreign policy speech scheduled for mid-December. It was a hit, and Lake became Clinton's senior national security adviser...
...recently introduced by Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Jr., would require minimum levels of screening and training for all guards hired by the Federal Government, as well as criminal-records checks and psychological testing. "Why the hell do we need the Federal Government in here?" explodes Pinkerton's president Albert Berger. "It's an invasion of what the states should be doing. Just because Lipman ((like Gore)) is in Tennessee ((the state Gore represents)) is the only reason why the bill exists...
...Berger's "seeing" has been notably unique in all his work, his place in art criticism secure but set apart. In "Lost Off Cape Wrath," one of the last essays in this collection, Berger hints at his own tenets in art criticism...
...Authenticity," Berger asserts, "comes from a single faithfulness: that to the ambiguity of experience...When his pages are finished, the reciprocal ambiguities coalesce into a mystery." Keeping the Rendezvous has this authenticity: He writes as unmysteriously, as precisely and as clearly as language allows, thus revealing mystery not as superficial obfuscation through art, but mystery as the very real ambiguities of life uncovered...