Word: bergere
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Whether they met on MTV's "Celebrity Death Match" or at a Council on Foreign Affairs debate, Condoleezza Rice would single-handedly wipe the floor with the Clinton foreign policy tag team of Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger...
...terrorists (including Bin Laden) and evidence that Bin Laden had sought to develop chemical weapons there. All of that, and a soil sample showing traces of a nerve gas building block. The administration's position was summed up a month after the missile strike by National Security Adviser Sandy Berger: "With the knowledge that we had... had we not hit that target and had Bin Laden used chemical weapons in a terrorist attack, I don't know how we could have looked the American people in the face." Until now, the administration has stuck by its decision to target...
...control of Jerusalem--in short, all the issues dividing the two sides. Along the arbored paths of Camp David, over meals of steak and salmon or in their private cabins, every foreign policy heavyweight in the Administration, including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, is hammering on those issues with the delegations of Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Failure is a very real possibility, and Ross, who will have to pick up the pieces, is keenly aware of it. But the U.S.'s top Middle East negotiator continues to search...
Other critics focus on his secretiveness. Famous for that closely held binder and his lack of a paper trail, Ross shares only with his immediate superiors--Clinton, Berger and Albright--the most sensitive information on talks, and some say the lack of witnesses and signed documents leaves him vulnerable to those who would go back on their word. But most colleagues say such tactics are an asset, not a liability. "It makes his role all the more essential," says Ed Abington, a former member of Ross's team. In fact, the joke at State is that essential Ross has found...
...must find new ways to set their palates apart from those of the masses. Let them eat Milky Ways and M&M's. The true elite prefer dark chocolate, these days known as pure dark or grand cru or vintage or whatever other nomenclature specialty companies such as Sharffen Berger, E. Guittard, Michel Cluizel or Chocolove dream up. What's in a name, you ask? According to a recent survey by the National Confectioners Association, nearly 30% of consumers now prefer dark chocolate to other varieties...