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...goes. "What does wonk mean?" "How many novelists have been on your cover?" "Can you find a letter my son wrote to you in 1970?" "How much do actors make?" Oddly enough, no one has yet asked why the sky is blue...
Norman Ornstein is a wonk, a wonk's wonk, maybe the wonk di tutti wonks. As a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, he not only talks the wonk's talk, he also walks the wonk's walk. His admission that he is the co-chair of the President's Advisory Committee on the Obligations of Digital Broadcasters trips off his tongue with alacrity. But like so many of the earnest wonks of Washington, he longs to be loved for more than his mind. He wants to be thought of as funny...
...year. Ginsburg came in second and Ornstein third. Some thought Ginsburg was graded a bit high. But there were no sour grapes. "When you do something like this," Ornstein said, "and people laugh, it's just--great!" Dreams do come true. The man came in a wonk, but left feeling like Howie Mandel...
...Chief, of course, but there was no doubt that he was genuinely committed to this problem; at some level, it is where he lives. My own taste would have him talk less like a policy wonk and more like a preacher, but as the panel demonstrated in a confused and awkward way, most of us are on the same side...
...while longer. And the VX report, which Iraq disputes, certainly seems to bolster the latter case. Asked about the leaked report, State Department spokesman James P. Rubin said the finding "demonstrates how important it is for sanctions to remain in place until Iraq cooperates with UNSCOM." Which is wonk-speak for "We told...