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...course, this quintessential politician-to-be isn’t about to admit straight out that he is on the campaign trail. “Right now,” Dunay says smoothly, “my ambition is to be a part of a legislative body. I’m not going to go forward from that,” he hesitates for a trademark beat, “at least right...
Sean W. Coughlin ’06 is one. Like Libby, Coughlin believes in fate. Also like Libby, he believes his fate lies in one place. “What I am trying to be is not an average politician or an average human being,” he says. “I’m trying to be someone who is remembered, someone who makes a mark on the world, someone who makes a mark on his country...
...stick forever. Sometimes, the first-year, who says he “tries to be calculating,” will let slip what cards are in his hand. The corners of his lips perk into a smile, and he becomes sheepish as he speaks like the politician he knows he is. “A politician tries to give as little information as possible and tries to appeal to everyone without upsetting anyone,” he says. “That probably relates to the way I’m not answering your questions blatantly...
...he’s willing to make. “Don’t let what you see on television—that nice, smiling campaigning—don’t let yourself think it’s that easy,” he says, recalling advice a politician once gave him. “It’s a battle. It’s something good people don’t become involved in, by the very nature of the game...
...RELEASED. ASIF ALI ZARDARI, 46, husband of self-exiled Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto who has been in jail on corruption charges since 1996, to visit his ailing mother for three days; in Karachi. The temporary freedom may be a show of leniency as President Pervez Musharraf's government attempts to deter Bhutto's powerful Pakistan People's Party from allying with Islamic fundamentalists to form a coalition government...