Word: leone
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...fair to Cross, a few of Stager's other friends have also imputed to me an imputation of anti-Semitism to him. The most interesting instance of these is Leon Levy, the Wall Street Financier who provides the funds for Stager's Ashkelon dig. Levy and I have known each other for some years, and we met by accident in the lobby of a London hotel only ten days ago. He upbraided me for what he called my "anti-Semitic insinuations about Stager." I was appalled, and told him that this was an invention (maybe his, maybe Stager's) which...
These are no longer theoretical problems. The once taboo topic of means testing -- linking government payments to income -- was debated at a recent high-level White House meeting. The President mostly listened, but proponents of some kind of limitation included Vice President Al Gore, Budget Director Leon Panetta and presidential counselor David Gergen. Their rationale: only by restraining entitlements can the Administration afford new programs and further deficit reduction. "Everyone agrees this is something to be looked at," confides a senior White House official. "Even a novice looking at the budget can't help seeing what's happening to entitlement...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, * Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...administration and continuing in Stager's administration, increasing deficits threatened to sabotage the proper work of the Museum. The traditional center of the Museum's activity, exploration and excavation of sites of the ancient New East expanded as the Museum became the sponsor of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon ion 1987. This continued the enterprise of the early days, the excavations at Samaria, funded by Jacob Schiff, the benefactor who provided funds for the building of the Semitic Museum, and the excavations at Nuzi (with the Fogg Museum), and later (with the Museum underground) at Shechem, Idalion in Cyprus...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...