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...handicap for this Administration is that it has no credible uniformed stalwart to make the case for the war on a daily basis-as Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf did during the Gulf War. And so the sober, 69-year-old Rumsfeld has become the Administration's go-to guy. With Dick Cheney mostly at his undisclosed location, Rumsfeld is the government's resident grownup, an acerbic spokesman who can convey condescension and playfulness in the same breath, as he did last week when chiding a reporter for "beginning with an illogical premise and proceeding perfectly logically to an illogical...
...chore of pacifying allies and adversaries who take a dim view. In more than seven sit-downs with Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, he has tried to persuade an unyielding Moscow to say O.K. Everyone who opposes missile defense or wants to slow it down looks to Powell as the go...
When the ECAC playoffs rolled around, Tammy Shewchuk fast became the Crimson's go-to player. In the quarterfinals, Providence made a serious bid to bring Harvard's season to a premature end, but Shewchuk would not be denied, scoring a hat trick and assisting on sophomore linemate Kalen Ingram's game-winner in overtime...
...unarmed black teenager, black clergymen prevailed on Sharpton to cut short a fact-finding tour about slavery in Sudan and fly in to lead a rally. They claim, without offering proof, that Jackson was rebuffed when he tried to wrangle a similar invitation. "Jesse's not the go-to guy anymore," says a Sharpton admirer. Jackson, who denies scrounging for the invitation, says going "would not have been rational" because N.A.A.C.P. head Kweisi Mfume was already there...
...Fisher said the company has much to gain from the teaching and writing techniques of Gates, whom he called the go-to guy on the Harlem Renaissance...