Martin Indyk is the vice president and director of foreign policy at The Brookings Institution and author of the recently published Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (Simon & Schuster 2009).
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Edward Jay Epstein studied government at Cornell and Harvard, and received a PhD from Harvard in 1973. The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood is his 13th book. The sequel, The Hollywood Economist will be published in January 2010.
Why did Quadrangle Group, run by Steven Rattner whom the president has chosen as the auto industry's fix-it man, have a subsidiary buy the DVD rights to Chooch, a movie co-produced by a pension-fund official? It's among the many things New York's attorney general needs to figure out.
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Adam Winkler is a constitutional law professor at UCLA.
What Liz Doesn't Get About Lawyers
Charles Fried was Solicitor General of the United States. His book with Gregory Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, will be published by W. W. Norton in September.
Gregory Fried is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. His book with Charles Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, will be published by W. W. Norton in September.
Haiti Loses Its Lifeboat
Dr. Sheri Fink the award-winning book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (Public Affairs, 2003), about wartime Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford. She was the recipient of a Kaiser Media Fellowship in Health from the Kaiser Family Foundation and is currently a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
