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...Democrat and a Russia expert and Rice colleague from Stanford; Tom Graham, a Republican think-tanker; and Felix Rohatyn, the New York investment banker who was Clinton's ambassador to France. The surprising cast included two Brits--Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, and the left-leaning Oxford scholar Timothy Garton Ash. For 2 1/2 hours Bush listened and asked questions. "He hasn't thought a lot about these issues before," says someone who was there, "so he's taking this very seriously...
...Kubrick was a scholar of hubris. That was his persistent theme: the dream of being other, or more, than we are. The ambition that seems honorable in your standard movie hero is often revealed as idiot obsession in a Kubrick protagonist. He falls in love with a living doll (Lolita) or himself (Barry Lyndon), with an idea that may be decent (justice, say, in Paths of Glory), even artistic (writing a novel, in The Shining). But Kubrick sets him the sort of test and trap that real-boy Martin sets for David: a man must learn the limits of hope...
...President Clinton's ability to persuade and lead the Europeans, despite substantial policy differences, rested primarily on his intellect. The former Rhodes Scholar displayed a legendary ability to grasp and synthesize the arguments of his European counterparts, and to articulate U.S. positions in ways that sought to plausibly address their concerns. The Europeans may have disagreed with Clinton on many issues, but they respected his mind...
Schwartz is also a Truman Scholar and will spend the next year in Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship. He is a member of the U.S. Academic First team...
Over the years, the English poetry scholar became a savvy businessman. But fundraising, his colleagues say, is a human process—one that requires intense persuasive and personal skills...