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...anti-PC crusade is being led by the likes of Dinesh D'Souza, a former staffer at the right-wing Dartmouth Review who spent the '80s as a domestic policy analyst for the Reagan Administration...
...opportunity of a lifetime, one he's been rigorously training for since college. A Harvard-educated physician and a University of Chicago-trained lawyer, he defied geography and sleep deficits to achieve both degrees simultaneously. He studied management at New York University and politics as a Senate staffer. For nine years, he ran the hospital at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. When he was tapped for the FDA post, he was serving on a federal commission analyzing that very agency. "A lot of my background comes together here," he says. "I feel comfortable, enormously comfortable here...
...dangers of war. Many legislators contend that during a Riyadh briefing last autumn, the general emphasized the strength of the Iraqi army and predicted as many as 20,000 U.S. casualties. "This guy contributed in no small degree to the Democratic opposition to the war," complains a Senate staffer...
While working toward a doctorate in that subject at the University of Wisconsin, Cheney plunged into politics and hardly ever looked back. He went to Washington in 1968 as a staffer to a Republican Congressman, who soon loaned him to Donald Rumsfeld, head of the Office of Economic Opportunity. When Rumsfeld moved to Nixon's White House as counsellor, Cheney went along as his deputy. He escaped the Watergate tarnish by resigning in 1973 to work for a firm of Washington lobbyists...
...Hampshire. Reporters at the Post, whose lead was followed by U.S. News & World Report, insist they got their scoop by observing that Sununu was an unusually frequent traveler and by demanding his records from the Pentagon. But once Sununu's detractors got wind of the investigation, says a Post staffer, "they called to cheer us on" -- and to provide more details...