Word: schiff
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...impresario Serge Diaghilev, writers James Joyce and Marcel Proust, painter Pablo Picasso and composer Igor Stravinsky. Ostensibly they were there to celebrate the premier of Stravinsky's ballet Le Renard, performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The real reason: so a wealthy English arts patron, Sydney Schiff, could bring together the giants he worshipped. In A Night at the Majestic, Richard Davenport-Hines brilliantly reimagines this unique-in-art-history event, setting the five-star diners in their Modernist context, between Picasso's first and shocking foray into Cubism, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1906-7, and Joyce's revolutionary...
Karenna Gore Schiff Some people live the lives they've been given, and some--in the words of Southern belle turned civil-rights activist Virginia Durr--"step outside the magic circle" of the world they were born into and make it better. It's the latter group that interests Schiff (who is Al Gore's daughter). She vividly profiles nine women, some well known, like labor firebrand Mother Jones, some less so, like Alice Hamilton, one of the first doctors to fight for industrial safety, who asked, "Is it sensible to assume that what is American is necessarily wisest...
...Schiff says Paxon and Linder also reached into the ethics committee itself, first approaching him and Goss several weeks ago to propose that they make public whatever they properly could from the investigation. "Bill Paxon and John Linder had said to us on several occasions they were looking for all possible ways of getting information out to Republican members that could be legally released before the speakership vote, because they said their phones were ringing off the wall with respect to members calling and asking questions. So we knew the leadership wanted--at least that portion of the leadership wanted...
...describing his contacts with Paxon and Linder, Schiff said, "I talked with each of them, probably on a couple of occasions each, and the one thing they each wanted from myself, and, I believe, Porter also, was to know how could as much information as possible be released publicly as soon as possible." What's more, Schiff says he first heard of the letter when an aide to a member of the Republican House leadership read him Goss's handwritten text over the phone and asked if he would join in signing it. Paxon insisted that Schiff and Goss...
Even as Gingrich was dialing for votes, the letter came from Goss and Schiff, the G.O.P. members of the ethics subcommittee. For Republicans looking for a life preserver, it was just that. But the note, as well as press reports that the subcommittee had already decided on a reprimand for Gingrich, led investigator Cole to issue an angry statement reminding everyone that "the ethics rules do not permit public comment on the work of the committee until we are convened in an open session." All the same, Schiff insists he did nothing improper. "The letter may be unusual...