Word: egos
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Bush veterans love Card because he is an honest broker who will make the trains run on time, but no one mistakes him for a visionary. Card has spent the past six weeks at Bush's side, organizing his days, his briefings and his decision making. "Andy has no ego," said a veteran of the Bush White House...
...Friedman has a journalistic alter ego, Atlantic Monthly correspondent and author Robert Kaplan, who saw only gathering gloom and doom as the harvest of the West's Cold War triumph. His influential 1994 essay "The Coming Anarchy" described a world in which the prosperity and stability of the industrialized world is subsumed by mounting anarchy as the collapse of nation states (and their replacement by a combination of transnational corporations and tribal militia), the scarcity of resources, and the globalization of disease and crime accelerate in the vacuum created by the Cold War's end. And where the political class...
...ALTER EGO Bruce Wayne COOL CAR Batmobile TRAGIC PAST Parents killed when he was a child URBAN PERCH Gotham ARCHENEMIES Riddler, Penguin, Joker SUPERPOWERS Batlike reflexes; dizzying array of gadgetry WEARS A CAPE...
...ALTER EGO] Clark Kent [COOL CAR] No need [TRAGIC PAST] Home planet destroyed [URBAN PERCH] Metropolis [ARCHENEMIES] Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Metallo [SUPERPOWERS] Faster than a speeding bullet; ability to leap tall buildings [WEARS A CAPE...
...ALTER EGO] Karl Wojtyla [COOL CAR] Popemobile [TRAGIC PAST] Mother died when he was 9 [URBAN PERCH] Vatican City [ARCHENEMIES] Communists, Beelzebub [SUPERPOWERS] Transubstantiation; hot line to Jesus [WEARS A CAPE...