Epstein Secrets

tioned foreign intervention is bound to bog its armies down in endless wars fighting invisible enemies to help ungrateful locals. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told West Point cadets almost two years ago: "Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asi

p ungrateful locals. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told West Point cadets almost two years ago: "Any

nd a last Koch hurrah, a Democratic primary in 1989 won by David N. Dinkins, who would be his one-term successor as New York's first Black Mayor. As Brian Williams said on the NBC weekly news on Friday, "When you hear that voice or for that matter when you close your eyes and tried to think of the typical New

because he wants to get out Trey Gowdy said on Fox News' Special Report (8/16, 1.53M), "I keep thinking of the words of [former Defense Secretary) Robert Gates...who said Joe Biden for four decades was wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security decision. ... I'm happy he kept a campaig

f the words of [former Defense Secretary) Robert Gates...who said Joe Biden for four decades was wrong o

lly To President's Defense. A number of commentators came to the President's defense following the speech, praising it as appropriate to the moment. Brian Williams said on MSNBC (8/16, 1.02M), "That was a consequential speech by an American president at a consequential time. To, quote, toward the end, 'I am the

the administra- tion could have acted on it two years before political and public pressure forced a change in strategy. Now, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged this week with his comments on troop levels, the next president will be responsible for ending what Mr. Bush secretly and recklessl

ge in strategy. Now, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged this week with his comments on tro

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ncludes incomprehensibly wealthy people like Bill Gates. Imagine 10 people in a bar. When Bill Gates wal

rom Ashland High School and then the University of Oregon. Lesley Stahl was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. Diane Sawyer was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, Brian Williams. Ridgeway, N. J. and Lora Logan Durban, South Africa. On top of this all three rank highly among American cities in a rubric of racial and ethnic d

York's Rockefeller University in 2000 brought him into greater social promi- nence. Boasting such social names as Nancy Kissnger. Brooke Astor. and Robert Rats. the board also includes such pre-eminent scientists as Nobel laureate Joseph Gold- stein. "Epstein was thrilled to be elected." says someone who

hool, too, without a degree. Between 1973 and 1975, Epstein taught calculus and physics at the Dalton School. By most accounts, he was something of a Robin Williams—in—Dead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs. So impressed was one Wall Street father of