As a coda to Artnet Magazine’s brilliant coverage of the cultural issues surrounding the Beijing Olympics, let me report on a small dinner I attended for former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at an uptown restaurant two weeks ago. Just off the plane from Beijing, the 85-year-old Kissinger, dressed smartly in Armani, held forth for three hours over a five-course Italian dinner, to a "stag" group of ten men, plus my date Marianne.
