"Perhaps she feared that men and women of letters might use the occasion to protest the Iraq war. (On 25 April, she remarked about the war: No one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this.)Also absent from the guest list were American artists, filmmakers and musicians, except violinist Itzhak Perlman, who performed after dinner.Instead, Calvin Borel, the jockey who had just w" . . . .