The Foreign Service Journal, November 2020

6 NOVEMBER 2020 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL 101 Reflections The Fastest Car in All Bolivia By Ge o r ge S . He r rma n n 102 Local Lens Nuuk, Greenland By J ame s P. DeHa r t 77 Bringing Americans Home: AFSA, Diplomacy MuseumTeam Up for Presentation 78 State VP Voice—Time for an Office of Conflict Resolution 79 USAID VP Voice—The More Things Change… 80 FCS VP Voice—The Advocacy Center: AWin for American Jobs 80 New Members Join AFSA Committee on Elections 81 Book Notes: Believers: Love and Death in Tehran 82 AFSAWelcomes Three New Governing Board Members 83 State Offers New RemoteWork Flexibility 85 FS Retirees Visit Vineyards 85 AFSA Governing Board Meeting, Sept. 16, 2020 85 2021 FEHB Insurance and Benefits Presentation On the Cover— Design: Driven by Design LLC. Background: iStockphoto.com/Ota Gebauer. Photos, from left: Secretary of State George Shultz at State Department Press Conference, Oct. 25, 1983—ALAMY/KEYSTONE PICTURES USA; Secretary Shultz greets Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze at theWhite House, Sept. 27, 1985—RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY; George Pratt Shultz—U.S. DEPART- MENT OF STATE; Secretary Shultz walks with President Ronald Reagan outside the Oval Office, Dec. 4, 1986—RONALD REAGAN PRESIDEN- TIAL LIBRARY; Secretary Shultz meets Embassy Moscow staff, May 1988—SHAWN DORMAN. Marketplace 96 Real Estate 98 Index to Advertisers 99 Classifieds FOREIGN SERVICE 7 President’s Views A Message from George Shultz to the Foreign Service By E r i c Ru b i n 9 Letter from the Editor Tending the Garden By Sh awn Do rma n 21 Speaking Out Female, (Won’t) Curtail & Yale: Waiting to Exhale By Sama n t h a J a c k s o n , Aya n d a Fr a n c i s - Ga o, L i s a - Fe l i c i a A ko r l i , A j a Ke n n e d y, An n a h Mwe n d a r- Ch a ba a n d Te s s a He n r y Perspectives Departments 10 Letters 12 Letters-Plus 16 Talking Points 86 In Memory 93 Books AFSA NEWS THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION 85