This combination first appeared in 1949, and is ascribed to Gustave Tops, a Belgian barman, who created it at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Perle Mesta, then U. S. ambassador to Luxembourg.

A former student of George Perle, he is currently a professor of music composition at Princeton University, and in addition to his music is known as a pioneer in the development of computer music languages for algorithmic composition ( see Real-Time Cmix ).

He is often credited with influencing a number of prominent members of the neoconservative movement, including Richard Perle ( who, as a teenager, dated Wohlstetter's daughter Joan ).

Richard Norman Perle ( born 16 September 1941 ) is an American political advisor, consultant, and lobbyist who began his career in government as a senior staff member to Senator Henry “ Scoop ” Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970s.

Aside from these engagements, Perle is the former co-chairman and director of Hollinger, Inc., a partner of Trireme Partners and a non-executive director of Autonomy Corporation.

Perle is widely credited for spearheading opposition to the treaty, which was never ratified by the Senate.

Perle and Frum conclude: “ For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation ’ s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust .” These ideas are foundational elements of neoconservatism.

Arguably at the helm of the neoconservative movement is Richard Perle.

Perle is nonetheless an inspiration and mentor to Feith who describes him as a “ godfather ” and trusts that “ He would actively work to help anybody he had worked with and liked and admired and who he thought was useful to the overall cause of U. S. national security as he saw it .” Both Wolfowitz and Feith would eventually join forces and work closely together to promote the War in Iraq after 9 / 11.

It is hard to imagine the decision to invade Iraq without the vast influence of Richard Perle and other neoconservatives.

Perle is a frequent critic of the United Nations, stating that it is an embodiment of "... the liberal conceit of safety through international law administered by international institutions ...."

Perle is also known to have demanded payment for press interviews while he was the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a practice that has raised accusations of not only ethical, but legal impropriety.

In the report, Perle is singled out as having breached his fiduciary responsibilities as a company director by authorizing several controversial transactions which diverted the company's net profit from the shareholders to the accounts of various executives.

Added Perle ; " Sy Hersh is the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist, frankly.

Perle is author of many articles and three books:

The touristic slogan of Saas-Fee is " Die Perle der Alpen " ( The pearl of the Alps ).

Kofi Annan and Richard Perle have said the Iraq War is illegal, but this was never mentioned in the US media.

George Perle ( 1990 ) has argued that this amounts to " Tradition in 20th Century Music ", the most significant element of which is the " shared premise of the harmonic equivalence of inversionally symmetrical pitch-class relations ," among composers such as Edgard Varèse, Alban Berg, Béla Bartók, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Scriabin, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, and himself.

The lead character is based on Washington, D. C. hostess and Democratic Party fundraiser Perle Mesta, who was appointed the Ambassador to Luxembourg in 1949.

The village is sometimes referred to as the gem of the Enns-valley (" Die Perle des Ennstales ").

Born in Victoria, British Columbia he is the son of Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) sergeant Theodor Berger, and, his wife, Perle, née McDonald.

PNAC member and the chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee ( DPBAC ), Neoconservative Richard Perle, later expressed regret over the Iraq invasion and ultimately put the blame for the invasion on President George W. Bush ; while other renowned neoconservative ideologists like Joshua Muravchik and Norman Podhoretz claim that neoconservatives must take intellectual leadership and that traditional conservatives lack the insight on how to solve terrorism.

Perle, with fellow neoconservative Paul Wolfowitz, played a supporting role in the ballistic missile defense project in the 1980s known as “ Star Wars ” Perle was influential in creating several organizations and think-tanks in order to pressure public opinion and sway policy makers on ballistic missile defense.

Like many in the neoconservative movement, Perle had long been an advocate of regime change in Iraq.

In 1998 Perle led an effort known as the Project for the New American Century with close neoconservative allies Wolfowitz, Woolsey, Elliott Abrams, and John Bolton.

Nonetheless, Perle helped manage and hire neoconservative affiliated staff for both these organizations that created their own policies and intelligence reports by dodging existing government entities.

In 2004, when Bush II was reelected many of Perle ’ s close neoconservative associates were promoted to “ unprecedented ” positions within the U. S government.

PNAC brought together prominent members of the ( George W ) Bush Administration ( Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz ) in the late 1990s to articulate their neoconservative foreign policy, including sending a letter to President Bill Clinton urging him to invade Iraq.

Interviewed about this matter, are politician John McCain, political scientist and former CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson, politician Richard Perle, neoconservative commentator William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, and public policy expert Joseph Cirincione.

Notwithstanding these concerns, Hersh reported that " INC supporters in and around the Administration, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, believe, like Chalabi, that any show of force would immediately trigger a revolt against Saddam within Iraq, and that it would quickly expand.

Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that Perle was “ making remarks as if he were an official inside the U. S government .” In countries like Germany, France, Britain, and Japan, people perceived him as a government authority whose knowledge and clout on U. S policy appeared legitimate.

: Harvard, 1998 ), 101 He also fostered scientific cooperation with the Soviet Union clashing with ' hard liners ' like Richard Perle as well as two treaties relating to cooperation in dealing with nuclear accidents in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster.

" Although originally regarded as an approach to domestic policy ( the founding instrument of the movement, Kristol's The Public Interest periodical, did not even cover foreign affairs ), through the influence of figures like Dick Cheney, Robert Kagan, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman and ( Irving's son ) Bill Kristol, it has become most famous for its association with the foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration.

In the 1970s Wolfowitz served as an aide to Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson, who influenced several neoconservatives, including Wolfowitz and Richard Perle.

Prior to and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Perle held several exclusive meetings in his home where he discussed issues regarding American foreign policy on Iraq.

If they couldn ’ t get what they wanted out of the intelligence community, they simply created their own intelligence .” Moreover, Perle allegedly gave several speeches and talks throughout Europe trying to promote the war effort abroad.

Since this scandal, Perle has made several attempts to reduce his alleged involvement in the war efforts stating: “ Huge mistakes were made, and I want to be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives, who had almost no voice in what happened …”

" According to Monitor documents, Perle traveled to Libya with several other advisers to hold lectures and workshops, and promote the image of Libya and its ruler.

Gaffney began his public service career in the 1970s, working as an aide in the office of Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson, under Richard Perle.

* Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, edited by Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski ( Strategic Studies Institute, January 26, 2009 ), with commentaries by Henry S. Rowen, Alain C. Enthoven, Richard Perle, Stephen J. Lukasik and Andrew W. Marshall.

From 1969 to 1980, Perle worked as a staffer for Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington who he met through Albert Wohlstetter.