…whose most exotic fantasies involve G.A.O. reports, but deep down, I have dreams,” wrote David  Brooks.

In his column, he delivered the money quote of the week for me: “Walking into the Obama White House of my dreams will be like walking into the Gates Foundation. The people there will be ostentatiously pragmatic and

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