From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@netcom.com> > >Someone said that Sternlight is a high-placed govt official. I don't > >believe this. (That someone was me, folks.) According to Tommy <nobody@soda.berkeley.edu> David Sternlight is a member of the council on foreign relations (pg. 176 of the 1993 Annual Report of the CFR) The following Executive Branch officials are also members of this organization: William J. Clinton, President etc etc... The CFR is a politicans equivalent of the rotary club and something you get into in exchange for little more than a few of the green folding ones. Everyone and his dog is in it - the membership must be in the tens if not hundreds of thousands. Basically it's like an English 'Gentleman's Club' - you're paying for the snob value of membership. What they get out of it is a big party cum picnic at somewhere posh once a year (like Camp David) and the chance to schmooze with the nobs. They disguise this on their tax claims as a policy conference. Membership marks Sternlight as a social climber, not as a mover and shaker. G