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...other experts say it's pointless to wait for the June vote, not least because its outcome is entirely unpredictable. "American attempts to game out Iranian politics, to try and determine who is on top, [are] doomed to fail," says Hillary Mann Leverett, a former Iran expert at the State Department and the National Security Council. She argues that U.S.-Iran talks should not be linked to personalities, saying they'll only be meaningful "if they are about issues, about substantive things...
...Mann Leverett, who conducted secret negotiations with the Iranians on behalf of the Bush Administration between 2001 and 2003, says her Iranian counterparts made sure to report to Khamenei or his trusted advisers before and after every conversation with U.S. officials. She points out that two former Foreign Ministers - Ali Akbar Velayati and Kamal Kharraji - are among those advisers. Both men have had some experience in dealing with the West...
...Naked City served as basis for hundreds of police procedurals (and the excellent TV series); to Ennio De Concini, 84, a screenwriter for nearly 60 years in the Italian film industry, and an Oscar-winner for the sublimely misanthropic Divorce Italian Style; and to Golden Age TV dramatists Abby Mann, 80 (Judgment at Nuremberg), William Gibson, 94 (The Miracle Worker) and Tad Mosel, 86, who later wrote Up the Down Staircase for director Robert Mulligan, and whose Broadway adaptation of TIME movie critic James Agee's memoir All the Way Home won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize...
Antoine could always find time to talk about his plans for the College’s music department, said Charles W. Altchek ’07, who had known Antoine since their freshman year at the Horace Mann School in New York, nine years ago. Altchek started a Facebook group in Antoine’s memory...
According to an e-mail sent to alumni of Horace Mann, the family is holding a private ceremony and is planning a memorial service. A posting on Facebook said that the memorial service has been tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 17 in New York...