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Quietly running the meeting is Josh Bolten, the Bush campaign's 45-year-old policy director. With iron-filings hair and the placid calm of a seminarian, the former investment banker seems oddly relaxed for someone in the thick of a pivotal battle. Gore's strategy is to do to Bush what he did to Bill Bradley--provoke the Governor into policy debates and then strangle him with details. Gore "distorts in a very detailed way," says Bolten. The policy shop must parry those criticisms, but if Bush spends too much time rebutting them, he'll look defensive and blot...
...save journalism. I got myself and Josh Tyrangiel, who sits across the hall, booked on a conference call last Thursday with Rich Hatch, the guy who won the $1 million, and about 100 other reporters. Our plan was to ask really, really stupid questions. We thought this might wake our society up from its psychosis. If not, we'd still get to ask stupid questions...
...Then I asked, "Rich, could you tell right away that Darva wasn't in it for the long haul?" Rich said, "I could. Almost immediately." But my victory was squashed when Tina Cassidy from the Boston Globe asked Rich to elaborate on his pre-high school life. So when Josh got his turn, he took on the heretofore unexplored topic of cannibalism: "Was it difficult choosing to eat Sonja in the second episode?" Rich asked to have Josh disconnected. There was a short struggle, and I heard a dial tone from his office...
...With reporting by Josh Tyrangiel
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