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...Russia expert and Rice colleague from Stanford; Tom Graham, a Republican think-tanker; and Felix Rohatyn, the New York investment banker who was Clinton's ambassador to France. The surprising cast included two Brits--Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, and the left-leaning Oxford scholar Timothy Garton Ash. For 2 1/2 hours Bush listened and asked questions. "He hasn't thought a lot about these issues before," says someone who was there, "so he's taking this very seriously...
...Australia, once a penal colony, Valerie Garton, 61, warns that "one must never start family history unless you're willing to accept everything you find." Garton's great-grandfather was transported to Tasmania for stealing sheep. Only a few decades ago, it was considered a taboo Down Under to admit to convict ancestry, and early census records were destroyed by politicians and others who did not want their origins revealed. But lately it has become fashionable to be a first-fleet Australian. Likewise, in the new South Africa, nonwhite ancestry for an Afrikaner is not only politically correct but socially...
...Oxford historian, Garton Ash is the author of six books, including History of the Present, which will be published by Random House this fall...
Oxford historian and author Timothy Garton Ash wrote The Polish Revolution: Solidarity
...Garton Ash writes, "the temptation is always to pick and choose your past," since a kind of Heisenberg uncertainty principle applies: the very act of opening a door into one's personal history changes the artifacts buried inside. That observation applies as much to James Salter's stylish Burning the Days as to Garton Ash's sprightly The File...