Epstein Secrets

ld be called "the silly season," as it often brings out the ridiculous, and nothing could be more ridiculous than Mitt Romney's interview on a local Virginia television station when he went further than normal in criticizing the president's handling of the economy, saying that he doesn't deserve credit f

y nearly three dozen respected national security experts from both political parties who signed it: including two former national security advisers, Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski; former Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering; and the retired Gen. Anthony Zinni. Yet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

know or like." Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia who was elected to the Senate three years ago, sa

t the idealism of a previous generation of interventionists, but his realism, if that's what it is, diverges from the realism of Henry Kissinger or Brent Scowcroft. "It comes from the idea that change is organic and change comes to countries in its own way, modernization comes in its own way, rather than throu

U-Shanghai), and Duke University (Duke-Kunshan)—have gone so far as to establish campuses in China, while others have opened centers (e.g., Stanford, Virginia, Chicago, Yale, Harvard, Columbia). Many more American universities have forged collaborative exchange programs with Chinese counterparts. While US-

own. One trip in December 1989 featured very heated debates with Chinese officials, especially after it was announced that National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger were also in Beijing for talks with Chinese leaders and that the two had made an earlier secret tr