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...ICBMs, Beijing has threatened to build more if the U.S. goes ahead with NMD. Last week 45 U.S. experts on China wrote Clinton urging him to put off NMD, arguing that it would be viewed in China as "a sign of increased hostility." Says Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser: "We have operated 40 years on deterrence. If we're going to abandon it, we need to determine what it will be abandoned...
Tribute albums are often content with summoning up old ghosts. Saxophonist , 31, takes a more rewarding approach on his excellent new CD: he offers up fresh takes on the music of French Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, but he does so by substituting his own instrument in the lead role. Carter, whether he's playing tenor or soprano sax, shows off a sweet, sinuous tone; when he reinterprets Reinhardt's classic Nuages with a bass sax, the muscular sound is distancing at first, but then it wraps itself around the listener like an anaconda. This CD does more than invoke Reinhardt...
...Throw into the mix a U.S. president who, both men know, will soon lose control over the diplomatic and financial levers that have enticed and cajoled them this far, and the chances of this Camp David summit achieving the sort of historic breakthrough as Jimmy Carter's 1978 confab with Israeli and Palestinian leaders are increasingly remote. President Clinton may have chosen the venue in the hope that the historical precedent would weigh on the minds of his guests, but unfortunately for him its outcome will invite comparison, too. And the U.S. president may be about to learn that...
Both Giles and Harvard refused to comment this week on whether he is still a candidate for the curatorship. But a close Giles associate, Knight Foundation President Hodding Carter III, said Wednesday that Giles is still being considered...
...understanding that no offer, assuming that there is one out there, has been withdrawn," Carter said...