After a pause, she spoke a bit more diplomatically: "Well, I know everyone is fighting for what they believe in.
(A United Nations rapporteur put it a little more diplomatically: The Georgian government's "generally positive trajectory" is in danger, he wrote in February, of succumbing to "a widespread climate of fear, intimidation and arbitrary restrictions of fundamental freedoms").
Only a little more diplomatically, the Americans are also blaming Mr Arafat, which confirms Arab suspicions that, despite Mr Clinton's heroic dedication to deadlock-breaking, America's pro-Israeli bias lives on.
Or let me rephrase that more diplomatically: a lot of people's taste buds work differently from mine.
Mr. Arafat himself, in a rare interview with an American newspaper, phrased things more diplomatically.
The board's co-chairman, another contemporary collector, Douglas Polley, put it more diplomatically: "We have a whole new group of people on the board who feel pieces are in place to do quite a bit," he said.
A friend described him as becoming a "philanthropist who specialised in rescuing lap dancers" while his French lawyer, Thierry Bensaude, more diplomatically referred to him as "a philosophical adventurer in society".
Mr. Schmidt said more diplomatically, "The problems at a company at Google's scale are always internal at some level".
Vladimir Shklyarov Unlike several of his perhaps more diplomatically minded colleagues, Mr. Shklyarov, a principal who joined the Mariinsky straight out of the Vaganova Academy in 2003, had no trouble identifying his favorite role in this repertory.
"In a way, having just tried to be more diplomatically involved and failed, I can imagine that some people will be arguing, 'It's a losing business; we tried a little, so imagine how much more difficult it will be if we try on substantive issues.' ".
