Word: diplomat
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George F. Kennan, U.S. diplomat and Harvard University Fellow from 1965 to 1969, died last Thursday at his Princeton home...
DIED. SOL LINOWITZ, 91, lawyer, businessman and diplomat who advised Presidents Johnson, Carter and Clinton; at his home in Washington. As an attorney, he acquired the rights to technology that built Xerox into one of the nation's largest companies. He went on to a life of diplomacy, helping negotiate the historic transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama and later representing Carter in the Middle East negotiations that followed the 1978 Camp David accords...
...ways that sometimes made him squirm, by the clubby coterie of wise men who shaped America's bipartisan foreign policy at the outset of the cold war. He was at heart an intellectual and a historian, which made him a little too edgy and anguished to be a natural diplomat. But while stationed in Moscow at the end of World War II, he became the most influential foreign-service officer in American history by authoring a new strategic doctrine--known as containment--that came to define his nation's foreign policy for four decades...
Around the globe, diplomats are busy comparing notes on what they see--and they aren't talking about her stiletto boots. To some, Condi's rise augurs a return to a more pragmatic U.S. diplomacy for an Administration exhausted by war, occupation and ideological infighting. That perception was given a boost last week by Bush's announcement that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the chief architect of the war in Iraq, would leave the Pentagon to take over as head of the World Bank--another sign that Rice and her realist deputies have gained the upper hand over their neoconservative...
...someone who, as National Security Adviser during Bush's first term, often seemed overwhelmed by rivals in the war Cabinet, Rice has displayed striking confidence in her early forays as a diplomat. Foreign officials note that she likes to play solo, holding meetings without a phalanx of regional experts. Others report that she is unexpectedly generous with her time, even to countries that have been sharply critical of the U.S. At the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in February between Arab and Israeli leaders, Rice met with all the participants individually but steered clear of the summit to avoid the appearance...