Weiner says he wants to run for mayor.
“I don’t think I’ll be as good at it. Either that or I’ll be” — he starts laughing — “this crazy new kind of politician. It’s somewhere between Chauncey Gardner and Bulworth.”
Two front pages, one guy with an umbrella.
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But the same qualities that worked well for him in his time as a risk-taking intelligence officer, trained to form a bond with potential recruits, may have been his undoing in his post-C.I.A. role as an intelligence expert sought out by reporters.
“Your job as a case officer is to recruit spies to steal secrets — plain and simple,” Mr. Kiriakou said. “You have to convince people you are their best friend. That wasn’t hard for me. I’d say half the people I recruited I could be lifelong friends with, even though some were communists, criminals and terrorists. I love people. I love getting to know them. I love hearing their stories and telling them stories.
“That’s all great if you’re a case officer,” he said. “It’s not so great, it turns out, if you’re a former case officer.”
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More great Times newsroom visitors, this time from the amazing David Dunlap. Robert Redford during location shot for Three Days of the Condor in ‘75.
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For Mr. Romney: “I do think that Romney’s business experience would be valuable, but I don’t know that running Bain Capital gives you the experience to run the country.”For Mr. Obama: “This business of ‘Well, they can afford it; they should pay their fair share?’ Who are you to say ‘Somebody else’s fair share?’ ”
For both: “Their economic plans are not real. I think that’s clear.”</blockquote?
From the one and only debate between Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Republican challenger Wendy Long.
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Kirsten Gillibrand, as a student at Dartmouth.
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Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
1926 - 2012
