Goldfarb is away this morning, intrepidly covering a Hillary Clinton event at Wellesley College. I was invited to tag along, but found the offer eminently resistible. Besides, I vowed never to return to the Wellesley campus after one of Wellesley’s fetching co-eds rejected me some twenty years ago. Anyway, with Goldfarb on assignment, it falls to me to provide the WWS with at least a modicum of fresh content. We would be remiss here if we didn’t in some way acknowledge long-time Bush associate Karen Hughes’s belated departure from government. Ms. Hughes’s latest assignment was admittedly an impossible one; as head of public diplomacy at the State Department, it was her job to make Muslim nations like us. In the Byzantine world of Bush personnel selection, Ms. Hughes was perfect for the job. After all, she did speak some Spanish. Ms. Hughes had a bumpy ride while trying to bridge the gap of thirteen centuries of estrangement. The New York Times reports today:
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