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...Connecticut-born, Florida-raised Libby attended the elite Phillips Andover Academy. His road to Washington began in New Haven, Conn., where, as a Yale undergraduate, he studied under a political science professor named Paul Wolfowitz. He graduated from Yale in 1972, and went on to get his law degree at Columbia. After Ronald Reagan?s election in 1980, Wolfowitz recruited Libby to work for him at the State Department. Then, during George H.W. Bush's presidency, Libby went to work for Wolfowitz again, this time at the Defense Department, where Dick Cheney was in charge...
This is not the Paul Wolfowitz the world is used to seeing. On a lush hillside in Rwanda last week, Wolfowitz - the über-hawk, the architect of the Iraq war, the embodiment of everything that the Bush Administration's critics find detestable about U.S. foreign policy - was talking about coffee. Standing beside tables of drying coffee under the beating sun, Wolfowitz, just two weeks into his new role as president of the World Bank, picked up a bean and asked a worker how he could tell that it was a good one. It's the color, the man said...
...There are still complaints. One Bank staff member says that Wolfowitz has been largely inaccessible to some top managers inside the Bank, relying more on his "loyalists" who moved with him from the Administration. But, for now at least, the charm offensive seems to be working. "People are saying, 'I met him. He didn't seem to have horns or a tail or anything,'" says another Washington staffer. In addition to winning over his new colleagues, Wolfowitz confronts an equally daunting challenge if he hopes to change the way the World Bank does business. The Bank has changed from...
...word reconstruction implies the war is over and you are simply trying to rebuild ... It marginally applies to Afghanistan. But it doesn't apply to Iraq." PAUL WOLFOWITZ, new World Bank president, who as U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary was a leading proponent of the Iraq invasion, on the challenges of rebuilding the country...
...stakes were high indeed. "This is an election where everything will be risked--life, liberty and honor," proclaimed Salvador ("Doy") Laurel, a major opposition candidate for the presidency. "You will have to kill us in order to cheat us." In Washington, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Paul D. Wolfowitz said before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that dishonest elections might cause a "disaster of large and indefinable proportions...