Milestones

DIED

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Cold Warrior and presidential adviser

TO UNDERSTAND ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, you first had to grasp his distrust of Moscow.

Even until his death on May 26 at age 89, the Polish-born, Harvard-credentialed former National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter remained among the rarified ranks of celebrity scholars, up there with Henry Kissinger, a predecessor to whom he was always compared. Zbig, as his friends knew