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With a baseball cap on his head and a “¡Sí se puede!” poster in hand, Derrick N. Ashong ’97-’98 appeared every bit the enthusiastic but uninformed young Obama supporter to a man wielding a video camera outside of the 2008 Democratic presidential primary debate in Hollywood, Calif...
...chance to rest my weary head on the thin carpeting of a Cornell University dormitory...
...While Elmendorf's career has moved on the same track as Orszag's - before arriving at the CBO, for instance, Elmendorf, like Orszag, had served as head of the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project, an economic-research program - the two men's styles could hardly be more different. Orszag sought a high profile for a bureaucrat, lecturing frequently and spending so much time in television studios that he carried his own makeup. Elmendorf rarely gives a television interview and says he is still startled when someone recognizes him as he is commuting home on the subway. (Orszag, who was recently...
...stress that he serves at the pleasure of the Commander in Chief. But that too is a mark of his craft. "I have never seen anyone more effectively maneuver in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government than Bob Gates," says his old friend David Boren, the former head of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee who is now advising the White House on intelligence. "He knows just when to give his advice, to whom to give it, and he's extremely good at forming alliances with other people in the government to advance his point of view." (See a slideshow...
...snow and terrain are not inducements enough to head to Alaska, then consider that your trip may well include sightings of soaring golden eagles, gigantic moose, mountain goats, otters, seals and possibly even an orca in the bay. The ice-climbing is world class, as are the skiers and boarders who congregate from all parts of the globe to test themselves on the steepest skiable pitches and the finest snow to be found anywhere. It doesn't matter where you may have skied or boarded before - the Chugach will make your jaw drop. As Doug Coombs famously said, "Everything else...