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Among the many pleasures of Bob Woodward's The Agenda -- besides the detailed accounting of endless White House budget disputes -- are the pungent, frequently catty descriptions of the principals (many presumably supplied to Woodward by colleagues). See if you can match these Administration figures with their Agenda characterizations...
...some earlier eras, Breyer might have hoped to inject himself quickly into the life of the court by taking sides in one of the wars of strong personalities that have occasionally riven it. In their 1979 Supreme Court tell-all, The Brethren, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong wrote that when William O. Douglas, who had recently had a stroke, was asked how he could decide cases when he couldn't read, Douglas replied, "I'll see how the votes and vote the other way." Today, though Antonin Scalia takes sarcastic digs at his colleagues in his opinions, the personal rancor...
Realignment has pretty well ruined the rest of the divisional horseraces. it doesn't take a crystal ball to see that the AL West is Texas' to lose, against the Oakland A's, California Angles, and Seattle Mariners. (Memo to Mariners GM Woody Woodward: Vizquel for Felix Fermin? What were you thinking...
...learn the goals of those in the former school, talk to Woodward and Bernstein of "All The President's Men" fame. Inform. Provoke. Throw all the knowledge out there so that readers can eradicate evildoers and lead better lives. A bit dramatic, maybe, but many reporters and editors went enthusiastically into journalism for just those reasons...
...distant past, The Crimson's newsroom was populated mainly by the first model of journalists--the Woodward and Bernstein wannabes. Our job was to ferret out the good, the bad and the just plain ugly at Harvard and offer it to the people...