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Alternating between first person and third person omniscient narration, Sharp vividly renders the inner lives of both 20th century legends—Balanchine and his muse Suzanne Farrell, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, among others—and her own fictive characters—primarily figured as members of the real NYCB or American Ballet Theater (ABT). She lends an aura of verisimilitude to her readers’ vicarious participation in the lived experience of dance...
...Wolf placed his 4,000 spies in such enemy territory as NATO headquarters, cannily converted West German agents to his team, and famously touted the "Romeo method"--the wooing of lonely government secretaries to gain access to confidential files. Among his best-known feats: placing an operative in the inner circle of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who retired in 1974 after the aide's allegiance was revealed...
...impending report of Baker's bipartisan Iraq Study Group heralds the return of the realists, many of whom worked under Bush the Elder, the most competent foreign policy realist ever to serve as President. Their inner circle huddled last month in Newport News, Va., at the christening of the aircraft carrier named after the former President. They discussed the need for a change to a more pragmatic approach. The cadre included Scowcroft, Baker, Powell and Lawrence Eagleburger (now in Baker's study group) as well as their soft-spoken and clear-minded longtime colleague Robert Gates, who has now been...
...Wolf placed his 4,000 spies in such enemy territory as NATO headquarters, cannily converted West German agents to his team, and famously touted the "Romeo method"-the wooing of lonely government secretaries to gain access to confidential files. Among his best-known feats: placing an operative in the inner circle of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who retired in 1974 after the aide's allegiance was revealed...
...That, frankly, is a self-serving evasion for anyone who advocated invading Iraq. Blaming Rumsfeld for the debacle it became reminds me of Trotskyists trying to rescue Bolshevism by blaming its grotesque consequences on Stalin's "implementation," rather than on its inner logic...