Word: gelb
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...newspaper, Frankel is well regarded by newsmen and is close to Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, 60. He is described as a cautious editor unlikely to make drastic changes in the newspaper. His two chief deputies will be holdovers from the Rosenthal era: Deputy Managing Editor Arthur Gelb, 62, who is being promoted to managing editor, and Assistant Managing Editor James Greenfield, 62. Deputy Editorial Page Editor Jack Rosenthal, 51 (no relation to Abe), will replace Frankel as chief of the editorial page. His new deputy will be Leslie Gelb, 49, the Times's widely respected national-security correspondent...
...Iraq will soon provoke a full-scale Sunni rebellion and civil war. Last week's announcement that armed Shi'ite and Kurdish militias would continue to be tolerated by the new government certainly didn't help. "There needs to be an immediate, aggressive U.S. diplomatic intervention," says Leslie H. Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who recently visited Iraq. "The Sunnis and Shi'ites have to cut a deal, and we should help them get there...
...skeptics who wrote off her early forays as standard grip-and-grin fare are beginning to pay attention. ("She's doing quite well because she's saying all those things that she and the President prevented [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell from saying for four years," says Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.) One important move: the U.S. agreeing to a plan forged by the British, French and Germans to offer Iran trade incentives if it abandons its nuclear-weapons program. In return, the Europeans will back Bush's plan to ask the U.N. Security...
...consumer of intelligence, having headed five U.S. diplomatic missions. His well-tested skills as a diplomat may be particularly valuable. "He understands the power centers in Washington," Bush said of Negroponte. "That was code to the intelligence agencies that John is not going to rock the boat," says Leslie Gelb, a former Defense and State Department official and president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. "He's not going to try to pound the table and create a revolution. The agencies would blow up anybody who would try. He'll get them in the room, get them talking...
...When Liz became when of our first scholars in the college scholarship program, she was a dedicated student. But she hasn’t been in touch with our program about why she is no longer at Harvard,” Gelb says. “All I can say is that she is a wonderful young woman, and we all wish her the greatest success in whatever she decides...