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...think there is a politician among us who would fit John Randolph of Roanoke's classic description of Henry Clay?: "A being so brilliant yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profiles in Discouragement | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

Varmus's tenure at NIH saw enormous success for the institute, both in gaining bipartisan political support and in recruiting talenting researchers. The New Yorker called Varmus perhaps "the most effective backstairs politician the Clinton Administration has produced." Congress gave him the highest compliment of all: a $5 billion funding increase...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harold E. Varmus: Nobel Prize Catapults Researcher into Public Eye | 1/12/2001 | See Source »

...self-respecting cat does not entertain fantasies of becoming a dog. The cobra does not aspire to be a mongoose. And it is against nature for a columnist to become a politician or, more dangerously, a Cabinet officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clipped by Her Own Press Clips? | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...careers, Chavez has been a columnist. She has done what a columnist does: advanced provocative, impolitic ideas. She has shot off her mouth in the way that a mindful, foresighted and rump-covering politician would not. Chavez has shown a talent for infuriating liberals - for example, deriding "crybabies" for bringing certain sexual harassment lawsuits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clipped by Her Own Press Clips? | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...impersonates one from time to time. But it doesn't work in the other direction. Right brain, left brain, different purposes. Pat Buchanan has exhausted himself going back and forth across the line. There's something almost unsanitary in trying to turn a columnist into a public official or politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clipped by Her Own Press Clips? | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

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