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...Steinberg, who suffers from PTSD as a result of his service in the Navy during the Vietnam War, is more pessimistic about the new veterans' future. "They'll be well received, but they're still going to have to go through the same bullshit years down the road...
...East Germans. "The W.J.C. will do everything it can so that it should not come about." Wolffsohn examined the East German documents last summer, but they won't be seen again soon. After unification, the archives came under federal German rules and were sealed for 30 years. Elan Steinberg, W.J.C. executive director, calls the East German version of the meeting "rubbish. The credibility of the source of those records is not very great." And in May 1990, Bronfman said the W.J.C. viewed German unification as inevitable...
...canyons of Wall Street and midtown Manhattan. Nicknamed "the Erector set," a stable of real estate developers transformed the cityscape, throwing up 50 million sq. ft. of glistening office monoliths within Manhattan alone. New fortunes upended the city's social lineage, shoving Rockefeller and Astor aside for Trump, Steinberg and Kravis. The new barons redefined wealth beyond Jay Gatsby's wildest dreams, ensconcing themselves in palatial aeries groaning with old masters and nouveau exorbitance...
...break came on an October night in 1969 at New York's Philharmonic Hall. It was not a fracture that disabled the 72-year-old Steinberg but sudden fatigue. Thomas, not yet 25, was standing in the wings when the maestro walked offstage just before the intermission and told his assistant to get out there and finish the concert. Thomas proceeded to take the orchestra through a Starer concerto and Till Eulenspiegel without a slip, and the critics flipped. By 1972 he was the Boston's principal guest conductor and had his own orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic...
...either by missile or by aircraft. Suddenly, Israel's long-presumed nuclear capability, still a monopoly despite Saddam's best efforts, does not seem to be an effective deterrent. "The situation is similar to the balance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the mid-1950s," says Gerald Steinberg, a strategic analyst at Bar-Ilan University outside Tel Aviv. "America had overwhelming superiority, but the Soviets could have caused great damage if they got off a first strike...