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...panelists were: Mickey Edwards, Kennedy School of Government lecturer and a former U.S. representative; Leslie Gelb president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former New York Times columnist; Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, a former U.S. representative and former NBC correspondent; and John Mashek, an official in the Department of Justice during Robert Kennedy's administration who now works as political correspondent for The Boston Globe and is an IOP fellow...
...Gelb said he agreed. "People in journalism don't understand what goes on in government. [The Two] are different cultures," he said...
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...