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PLAIN TALK |
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Leonard Horwin
January 2005
(310) 785-6600 tel.
(310) 785-6644 fax plaintalk@linkline.com http://www.leonardhorwinplaintalk.com |
Questions and Answers are cited below as
"Q" and "A"
1. Q: Why ask ourselves this question?
A: Because it is the carefully selected topic for an address to be delivered in the Beverly Hills City Library Auditorium on February 28, 2005.
2. Q: What is the relevance of the "past" of Beverly Hills?
A: The past is often a mirror in which one can see the future.
3. Q: Is that true now?
A: No, - and especially not in Beverly Hills.
4. Q: Why not?
A: Because Beverly Hills is inescapable from its times, - both in intention and negotiation of its reality.
5. Q: What is the future for Beverly Hills?
A: Overall, - its future is controlled in large part by its past, - but not beyond reason.
6. Q: Why not?
A: Because the past will give us our goal, but not its performance.
7. Q: How so?
A: Because you will see in the past the advantages of what you may recall as "The Garden City."
8. Q: And is that all?
A: No. The future is likely to be that Garden City, - but emphasized on its perimeter location, as related to very active business realities of the City.
9. Q: How do you see the realities of that future?
A: I foresee that Beverly Hills will be developed to look like a golf course on most of its perimeter, - but that the inner city compensates by its enormous business importance, ófor that awesome beauty of the Garden City on most of its perimeter.
10. Q: In sum?
A: Coupling the Garden City on almost the entire perimeter of Beverly Hills, - with the confinement of hyper business activity to the Cityís inner center, - Beverly Hills can shape a name and reputation even more worldwide than now.
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cc: George W. Bush, President
Richard Cheney, Vice President
John Kerry, Senator
John Edwards, Senator
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Colonel Oliver North
Tom Ridge, Secretary of Homeland Security
John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain
Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary
Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
His Excellency Daniel Ayalon Ambassador of Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu, Economy Minister for the Israeli Government
Israel's "Women In Green" National Unity Coalition for Israel
Arianna Huffington, Syndicated Columnist
Oriana Fallaci, International Journalist, Interviewer and Author
Yohanan Ramati, Chairman, Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense
Gerardo Joffe, FLAME (Facts & Logic About the Middle East)
Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor in Chief - US News and World Report
Time Magazine
Washington Post - Attn: Bob Woodward
International Jerusalem Post
The Weekly Standard - Bill Kristol, Editor
The Wall Street Journal - Editorial and Op-Ed Department
The New York Times, Op-Ed Department
Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed Department
Dr. and Mrs. Jordan Phillips, Medical Books for China International
Honorable Mark Egerman, Mayor of the City of Beverly Hills & City Council
Fred Cunningham, Executive Director of Public Affairs & Information, City of Beverly Hills City