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May 12, 2003

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Featured Pick

profiles

The Controller

Nicholas Lemann

Karl Rove is working to get George Bush reëlected, but he has bigger plans.

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Walter John Harmon

E. L. Doctorow

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Selective Intelligence

Seymour M. Hersh