Word: gelb
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Battle's handful of defenders agree she can be difficult but argue that her artistry makes her worth the trouble, and obliquely criticize the Met for not defusing the situation diplomatically. "Many great artists are difficult in their search for perfection in their craft," says Peter Gelb, president of Sony Classical Film and Video and Wilford's former deputy at Columbia Artists. Gelb has made nine TV programs with Battle. "The role of the Met is to support great talents. Nothing a producer does comes close to the challenge and difficulty great artists face when they go onstage...
Clinton's Russia-first emphasis is understandable but needs to be moderated. "We resisted blackmail when Russia was strong," says Henry Kissinger. "Does it make sense to permit Moscow to blackmail us now with its domestic weakness?" The problem, says Council on Foreign Relations president Leslie Gelb, in an insight several Administration aides agree is "right on," is that Clinton "is determined to avoid being tagged with having lost Russia. Yet it should be obvious that democracy in Russia will be won or lost almost exclusively by the Russians themselves." And if reform fails in Russia, says James Baker...
Consider the gulf war, by now totally misunderstood. New York Times columnist Leslie Gelb writes, "If the Persian Gulf war promised a new era of collective responsibility, Yugoslavia heralds its early demise." But the gulf war promised no new era of collective responsibility. The gulf war was no more collective than the Korean War, also fought under the U.N. flag. It was not the U.N. that reversed Saddam's conquest of Kuwait. It was the U.S. Army, based in Saudi Arabia, helped by Britain and France. Everything else was window dressing...
DAVID NYHAN GUSHED on the Globe Op-Ed page about him recently. Last April, political reporter Robin Toner drenched him with favorable images in The New York Times Magazine. Leslie Gelb wrote in the New York Times last week that folks in New Hampshire were "riveted by his intensity." And New York magazine national affairs writer Joe Klein apologized for many of Kerrey's faults last week, adding that he is "passionate" and "genuine...
...happens, Japan is already asking the U.S. to cut its government deficit, spend more on education and so on, in a trade negotiation known as the Structural Impediments Initiative. Leslie Gelb of the New York Times points out that these are "the very steps any American with half a brain knows we ought to be taking in our own self-interest." Trouble is, the Structural Impediments negotiations are halfhearted on both sides (America is asking that the Japanese do things like stop working on Saturdays). In a notorious 1989 book titled The Japan That Can Say No, a popular Japanese...