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Stager's whole history is philo-Judaic. Part of his graduate training was taken at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; he was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University. In his early years he was a beloved protege of Benjamin Mazar, the doyen of Israeli archaeologists. Stager was awarded one of he largest and richest of the pristine archaeological sites left in Israel by the Israeli Council on Archaeology. To pair Stager with Lowell is unconscionable, and Peretz should publicly apologize, or in any case repudiate the anti-Semitic interpretation generally and most plausibly given...
...anyone who thought the doyen of Washington power brokers was either pitiable or defenseless was quickly disabused of that idea last week. At a hearing before the House Banking Committee, which is investigating links between B.C.C.I. and First American, Clifford gave a forceful 90-minute soliloquy in his measured baritone, serving notice that proving him guilty would be a prodigiously difficult task...
Right across town, hours later, the New York Post's Cindy Adams, a darker and doughtier and even more decked-out doyen of dirt, was marinating in Donald Trump's self-righteous anger at being blamed for that saddest of commonplaces, a divorce. He was just as eager as his wife to hash out in public a story that seemed certain to do him no good, proving again the quirky fact that keeps all gossip columns in business: for some people, there is just no such thing as bad publicity. In Adams' published stories she too stood front and center...
Mary Cronin probed the public relations trade . . . "Flacks guiding clients up the social ladder," she says, "protect them as if they were atomic secrets" . . . In Washington, Michael Riley rang up Diana McLellan, the doyen of D.C. gossips . . . "She breathlessly picked up the receiver and talked without stopping. And she was doing her nails, causing her to lose her train of thought several times" . . . In Los Angeles, Jeanne McDowell concluded that gossip levels there approach the toxic because so many people have car phones . . . Stuck in traffic? Call a friend and talk about Cher...
...point, since it has no guarantee and loan system to defend). Probably not, say many dealers. But others think the idea is worth serious thought, though none believe it likely to happen while Washington still clings to the conservative catchword of deregulation. Besides, says Eugene Thaw, the doyen of U.S. private dealers, Sotheby's in particular may have enough political clout in New York to defeat a further tightening of the rules...