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...Other travel programs propose to take a new look at a more conventional destination, yet with an insider’s insight. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy Emeritus Marvin Kalb leads the nine-day tour “An Insider’s Rome” that offers exclusive after-hours access to a variety of religious and cultural sites, including the Sistine Chapel and Vatican museums—for a mere $7,495 (not including airfare...
Several professors who had previously taken strong stands on the paper—including Marvin Kalb, a lecturer at the Kennedy School, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, and Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi—all declined or did not respond to requests for comment...
...Mearsheimer every day of the next week. The Sun reported that a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, David E. Duke, had called the working paper “a great step forward.” And in the pages of the Sun, Kennedy School lecturer Marvin Kalb said that the Walt and Mearsheimer article “clearly does not meet the academic standards of a Kennedy School research paper.” In the magazine U.S. News & World Report, Kennedy School professor David R. Gergen called the Walt-Mearsheimer paper “an unfair attack...
...dissenting from Secretary Shultz," insisted Kalb. "To me, he is a monument of credibility, integrity, courage, strength." Shultz was equally gracious about his departing press secretary, saying, "I am sorry to see Bernie Kalb go. I admire him as a fine journalist, respect him as a colleague and adviser, and value him as a friend." In Kalb's nearly two years at the State Department, he had grown close to Shultz, nudging him into appearing on television more frequently to play up his role as advocate for the Administration's foreign policy...
...Kalb joins a handful of high Government officials who have stood on principle and quit rather than support the actions of the Administrations that hired them. Among the others: Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who resigned in 1980 over the attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran, and Press Secretary Jerald terHorst, who quit in 1974 when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for any Watergate wrongdoings. More often, Washington officeholders struggle for compromise between their integrity and the demands of their employers. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes, grilled by an angry press corps earlier this month about his nuanced...