Word: karle
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...first meeting with Karl, who died on July 1 at age 97, was in the office of the producer of The Streets of San Francisco, the '70s TV show. I had been recommended for a part, and Karl was giving me the once-over. My dad [actor Kirk Douglas] had worked with him on a summer-stock production, and he told me what a hard worker Karl was. That was an understatement. Karl came from the steel mills of Gary, Ind. He taught me just how fortunate I was to be an actor...
Early on in his career, Karl recognized that he was not going to be the leading man. But he was intent on being the best second lead there was. He had so many wonderful roles, in films from A Streetcar Named Desire--for which he won an Oscar--to On the Waterfront. He was an amazing reactor. For San Francisco, we were on location six days a week, and Karl used to pull me aside to work on our lines for the next week so that we would have them memorized for the first rehearsal...
...made actors around him better. Karl was a habitual teacher who prided himself on making everyone around him understand how to make the whole piece work. That has been one of the lasting lessons of my career...
...money per acre as wheat. So farmers will need new cash crops to replace the poppies and newly built roads to get such goods to market without paying bribes along the way. The best soldiers in the world can't manage every step of that process, which is why Karl Eikenberry, the new U.S. ambassador in Kabul and a retired Army lieutenant general who served twice in Afghanistan, says, "The military can help set the conditions for success. But it is not sufficient for success...
...public benchmarks? They are fairly broad. The progress in governance, reduction in corruption. I think our job and my job is to have the best outcome I can for Afghanistan. So I think I am partnered with a lot of people - Karl Eikenberry, the ambassador - and you can't say, O.K., you are security, you are governance - that won't work. They overlap so much that you have got to be partnered. And down at the lowest levels where the captains and sergeants are operating, it's absolutely overlapped...