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...Gerald Steinberg, a strategic analyst at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, says that December's U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, which claimed that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, was a "major shock" to Israel. "This disrupted 15 years of Israeli policy based on working with the international coalition to pressure Iran to drop its nuclear weapons program through sanctions and the threat of military action, if necessary. Within two weeks, the momentum of the sanctions regime to contain Iran was suddenly reversed...
...anthologies; “An Island Called Home” was sold at the discussion by the Harvard Book Store. Behar has also written poems and stories and made a documentary film entitled “Adio Kerida.” President and Director of Harvard Hillel Bernie Steinberg commented on Behar’s “extraordinary” voice as she struggles with “important central questions of fluidity and identity...
Have you ever considered running for political office, as John Glenn did? -Edo Steinberg, BEERSHEBA, ISRAELYes, but the idea wasn't very attractive. Eighty percent of people thought I was doing the right thing during the Korean War shooting down MiG-15s, and probably 95% were supportive of the moon landing. Why risk such a career so that only 51% of people will tolerate me and 49% will want...
...leading catbirds, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman and Apollo's Leon Black, happen to be old pals of Silverman's. In the 1980s, Silverman too was an LBO artist, working alongside corporate raider Saul Steinberg and funding his exploits with Michael Milken's Drexel junk bonds. Then, as a partner at Blackstone in the early 1990s, he sniffed a change in the financial winds, cobbled together a few struggling hotel chains (starting with Ramada and Howard Johnson) into Hospitality Franchise Systems (HFS), took the company public and stayed...
...drop into northern Iraq to broker a cease-fire between two feuding Kurdish militias that Washington hoped could eventually help overthrow Saddam Hussein. For Welch, there was one major risk to going in: he wasn't sure how he would get out. "What's your evacuation plan?" fretted Jim Steinberg, then Deputy National Security Adviser in the Clinton White House. "Five hundred bucks in cash," Welch replied, "and a bottle of Scotch...