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Power Profile: Gail Kern Paster
- In August 2002, one month after Gail Kern Paster became the Folger Shakespeare Library’s sixth director, her worst nightmare happened: Water began seeping into the underground rare-book vault. Any plans she might have had for the Folger took a back seat to keeping the priceless collection safe. Looking back on the crisis from her wood-paneled office filled with Shakespeare memorabilia, Paster says she is proud to have met the challenge.
- In August 2002, one month after Gail Kern Paster became the Folger Shakespeare Library’s sixth director, her worst nightmare happened: Water began seeping into the underground rare-book vault. Any plans she might have had for the Folger took a back seat to keeping the priceless collection safe. Looking back on the crisis from her wood-paneled office filled with Shakespeare memorabilia, Paster says she is proud to have met the challenge.
Power Profile: Bill Walton
- College came too early for Bill Walton. Because he skipped a grade in elementary school, he entered Indiana University at age 17 — too young, he said, to know what he really wanted to do with his life. After a couple of years, he decided to take a semester off to figure it out.
- College came too early for Bill Walton. Because he skipped a grade in elementary school, he entered Indiana University at age 17 — too young, he said, to know what he really wanted to do with his life. After a couple of years, he decided to take a semester off to figure it out.
Power Profile: Strobe Talbott
- The suitcase was large; its weighty contents a mystery. A young Strobe Talbott, who had lugged the thing up to his friend Steven Weisman’s apartment on New York’s Upper West Side, was clearly nervous leaving it behind while they went to dinner.
- The suitcase was large; its weighty contents a mystery. A young Strobe Talbott, who had lugged the thing up to his friend Steven Weisman’s apartment on New York’s Upper West Side, was clearly nervous leaving it behind while they went to dinner.
Power Profile: Billy Martin
- Sometimes a seemingly minor bump in the road can alter the course of a life. It happened to William R. “Billy” Martin in the early 1970s. Then a Howard University business major, Martin went home to Pittsburgh on a school break and got in an accident with a lawyer driving a fancy sports car.
- Sometimes a seemingly minor bump in the road can alter the course of a life. It happened to William R. “Billy” Martin in the early 1970s. Then a Howard University business major, Martin went home to Pittsburgh on a school break and got in an accident with a lawyer driving a fancy sports car.
Power Profile: Grover Norquist
- It’s 10 a.m. on Wednesday and Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, and 150 of his closest center-right allies have packed the second-floor conference room at his L Street office for their weekly invitation-only, off-the-record meeting.
- It’s 10 a.m. on Wednesday and Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, and 150 of his closest center-right allies have packed the second-floor conference room at his L Street office for their weekly invitation-only, off-the-record meeting.
Power Profile: Carnegie's Jessica Tuchman Mathews
- In early 2003, Jessica Tuchman Mathews and her colleagues at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace were among the few foreign policy experts in town trying to stem the rising tide in favor of invading Iraq.
- In early 2003, Jessica Tuchman Mathews and her colleagues at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace were among the few foreign policy experts in town trying to stem the rising tide in favor of invading Iraq.
Power Profile: Ed Crane
- Ed Crane doesn’t really like politicians, nor, for that matter, people who do. So it’s not surprising that the president of the libertarian Cato Institute is brimming with caustic opinions about the presidential race.
- Ed Crane doesn’t really like politicians, nor, for that matter, people who do. So it’s not surprising that the president of the libertarian Cato Institute is brimming with caustic opinions about the presidential race.
Power Profile: Andrew Kohut
- Two days after the New Hampshire primary, Andrew Kohut’s e-mail was still popping. His phone was ringing and messages were piling up. Political reporters all over town had read his op-ed in The New York Times, aptly headlined “Getting It Wrong,” and they wanted their own angles on the question of the day: How did Hillary Clinton win the Democratic primary when every poll had Barack Obama with an unbeatable lead going in?
- Two days after the New Hampshire primary, Andrew Kohut’s e-mail was still popping. His phone was ringing and messages were piling up. Political reporters all over town had read his op-ed in The New York Times, aptly headlined “Getting It Wrong,” and they wanted their own angles on the question of the day: How did Hillary Clinton win the Democratic primary when every poll had Barack Obama with an unbeatable lead going in?
