“... My teacher, Walter Kamper, belonged to the generation of Austrian pianists (including Jörg Demus, Paul Badura-Skoda, Walter Klien and, most notably, Alfred Brendel) who did much to raise public awareness of Schubert’s piano sonatas, and I think Kamper gave me D784 as an antidote to Chopin, to whom I was perhaps overattached. Where Chopin wrote with an ...”

“... curve’ – clearly showed that levels of atmospheric CO2 were rising sharply. In 1979, Jimmy Carter asked the National Academy of Sciences to look into the question. The Ad Hoc Study Group of Carbon Dioxide and Climate did that, and reported that they had ‘no reason to doubt that climate change will result and no reason to believe that these changes ...”

“... it their business to ensure that critics of Israel do not get important foreign policy jobs. Jimmy Carter wanted to make George Ball his first secretary of state, but knew that Ball was seen as critical of Israel and that the Lobby would oppose the appointment. In this way any aspiring policymaker is encouraged to become an overt supporter of Israel, which is ...”