Word: diplomatic
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...coup last week, when it signed James Baker as a partner. Baker is no banker, but as a former Secretary of State and George Bush's veteran campaign handler, his Washington and worldwide connections are unsurpassed. The same is true of the firm's chairman, Frank Carlucci, a former diplomat who was Ronald Reagan's Defense Secretary. When teamed with managing director Richard Darman, who as Bush's former Budget Director brings financial as well as political expertise, the group seems like a Republican Administration in exile. And its members hope to lure in another noted nonbanker, Colin Powell, when...
...wears pinstripe suits with suspenders and is addressed as "Mr. Ambassador." But Mickey Kantor is no diplomat. Take, for example, the way he described French negotiators who have fought to retain barriers to American farm exports: they have "held their breath and stomped their little feet," he said in an interview last week. Publicly, he has threatened retaliation against half a dozen "unfair" trade practices by the Europeans, the Japanese and others. And in response to foreign officials who sputter about his "bullying" tactics, he says with a tight smile and easy Tennessee drawl, "I think our message is getting...
...Randall Kennedy, a Harvard Law School professor and a former Marshall clerk, made this point obliquely in a remembrance of the Justice in Time when he noted that Marshall's civil rights colleagues--and personal heroes--included Walter White and Roy Wilkins, of the NAACP, William Hastie, the lawyer, diplomat and federal judge, and Charles Hamilton Houston, the legendary dean of Howard Law School...
...South Korean diplomat and a representative of Harvard's Yenching Institute both said at a Lamont Forum speech yesterday they hoped South Korea's December elections will bring political reform...
...Chinese know they have to wipe off stains on their hands before they can shake hands with Bill Clinton," says an Asian diplomat. "The paroles will help, but more are needed to do the trick." Perhaps dangling petrodollars might. China has opened up its remote but resource-rich inland areas to foreign oil companies, inviting U.S. oil firms to join the exploration of Xinjiang's Tarim Basin, an area as big as Texas...