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committee member of the Student Global AIDS campaign, which has done incredibly effective
work. Ben contributes to The Onion, source of the most consistently funny stuff
anywhere. An amazing intellect and talent.
10. Karl Procaccini—College '05. Karl took tremendous delight in ferreting out the oddest
stuff, including figuring out some of Ann Coulter's techniques for lying with footnotes.
Among others, Karl discovered the "overloading sharpest knife in the drawer" to describe
Bush twice in a month, but it turned out it was just the same article published in two newspapers.
Sorry I didn't use that, Karl. He also did a lot of the groundwork for "The Lawyer
and the Waitress."
11. Steve Robin—Kennedy School '04. Summa cum laude grad from Brandeis. Passionate,
committed, my wife called Steve "the catch" from TeamFranken. Steve is a committed activist
with a great sense of humor. The Kharap Jhuta chapter was Steve's idea. Tremendous
help on issues of bias. I wish I had used more of Steve's stuff on Bush's crony capitalism.
It'll be in the paperback.
12. Madhu Chugh—Kennedy School '04. As you can tell from her name and picture, a
Texan. A Democrat who has worked for Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack and in the Senate doing
health care policy for Senator Ted Kennedy. Winner of all kinds of awards, including
University of Texas Outstanding Female Student of the Year 1997-8. Madhu covered the
health care front, also the effect of tax cuts in states.
13. Noah McCormack—College '04. At first Noah was slightly disruptive because he knows
so much about everything that it was unnerving to all of us. Soon, Noah and we adapted
and he became an invaluable instant resource when we couldn't get Norm Ornstein on the
phone. A passionate intellectual, Noah's areas of interest knew no bounds. Though he was
particularly helpful on taxes, the estate tax in particular.
14. Bridger McGaw—Kennedy School '04. Deputy director of press advance for Al Gore in
2000. Bridger had a genuine dislike for the Bushies and especially their press operation.
Worked on 2000 election and changing the tone chapters. He called me "chief" a lot, which
made me feel like I knew what I was doing.
15. Emily Berning—Kennedy School '03, UC Berkeley Law '03. Summa cum laude from
Wellesley. Emmy is not, as I suggested, a super-feminist. In fact, she's assembling a cookbook
for TeamFranken of Franni's recipes. Also, she's not type-A, just amazingly organized,
effective, and smart. Emmy worked on the Religious Right, on Ashcroft, and was
forced to listen to and watch Sean Hannity. (Also, notice Ben's hand very low on Emmy's lap).
x. The small figure in silhouette in the entryway behind the steps is the spy from Karl Rove's
office that always tailed us.