Word: strobe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AUTHORS: MICHAEL R. BESCHLOSS AND STROBE TALBOTT...
EDITOR AT LARGE: Strobe Talbott...
...While Strobe has gone from being an editor at large to being an ambassador at large, the focus of his attention has not changed. He is one of the country's foremost experts on Russia and the other states of the former U.S.S.R. He learned Russian at Hotchkiss, majored in Russian literature at Yale, and wrote a master's thesis on that subject at Oxford. Clinton first witnessed Talbott's expertise 24 years ago when he and Strobe, both Rhodes scholars, shared a sparsely furnished row house at Oxford University. Clinton often recalled watching Strobe translate Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs...
...addition to translating and editing two volumes of Khrushchev's memoirs, Strobe has written five books on the relationship between the Soviet Union and the U.S. His sixth, At the Highest Levels -- The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War, co-authored with historian Michael Beschloss, will be published by Little, Brown this month...
...Strobe, Clinton gains a fellow wonk, someone with whom he can continue to talk about the mysteries of this nation's superpower rival. "He always had a voracious curiosity about the Soviet empire and the problems it posed to the world," says Strobe. "And I always suspected that it was in part because he hoped that one day he would be dealing with them." TIME will miss Strobe, but our loss will be the country's gain...