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The State Department's South Asia bureau called for a less confrontational stance toward theTaliban.
Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he "can't paint very well" (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because "confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siècle ." (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .)
But more likely the message was intended for a Yeltsin appointee turned rival, Yevgeny Primakov, the confrontational, pro-Serbian prime minister who hopes to capitalize on the Kosovo crisis.
Predicting that he would "get a lot of heat" for treating the minister with respect, Novak said that Farrakhan was "more measured and a lot less confrontational and provocative than a lot of the politicians we talk to regularly on this program."
But beneath the welter of details about Cyprus and Angola, Kissinger makes a surprising claim, arguing that his tough-but-accommodating policy toward the Soviets in the mid-'70s led directly to the confrontational Reagan tactics that won the Cold War in the '80s.