Everybody's on the Virginia Tech Hokie story: angling for the best policy advantage, annointing heroes, and amazing that death can touch us here too, apparently. (God bless the living.) Like Columbine, a generation of students will be swept up. The passivity saddens me. Naturally you wonder how other people in other times would respond; we're truly a led rather than a leader culture it seems. Conditioned to accept that there can be few leaders, and maybe even losing that understanding that of course you lead yourself. Even today.*
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Onward...
Mr. Gonzales got the day off for the emergency cancellation;
Mr. Wolfowitz does not:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department ordered a contractor to hire a World Bank employee and girlfriend of then-Pentagon No. 2 Paul Wolfowitz in 2003 for work related to Iraq, the contractor said on Tuesday.

A spokeswoman for Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC, said the Defense Department's policy office directed the company to enter a subcontract with Shaha Riza, under which she spent a month studying ways to form a government in Iraq.

Wolfowitz, a key Iraq war architect who left the Pentagon in 2005 to become president of the World Bank, is already under fire for overseeing a high-paying promotion for Riza after he took the helm of the poverty-fighting global lender.

Drezner's taking bets now to see which one will go first. Me? I'm just waiting for the next of these two to go-- got an applicable hockey cheer on ice. Wait and see.


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*Myself, always been surprised @ how many folks think they're a leader because someone told them so. Nope, look around. People following your lead? Voluntarily? Run with it...