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A mock interview with Ricky Martin suggests that he is a secret policy wonk: He reads the New Republic and loves to expostulate on Puerto Rican sugar-cane subsidies and "la domestic policy loca."
But you still have to wonder how such a smart policy wonk can fail to be bothered by the perversities and complications of the tax code.
My files are as full as any policy wonk's with scholarly studies demonstrating that using tax lures to attract jobs and taxpayers often ends up robbing not just Peter, but Paul as well.
Newsweek 's ebullient cover story calls Hillary Clinton "the hottest commodity in American public life," urging her to run because: 1) She has sacrificed enough of her own ambitions for her husband's career; 2) she's a born policy wonk; and 3) it would strengthen the Clintons' marriage.
It's the fate of Wigand, played by Crowe as a prickly, blockish fellow with no social skills--an edgy wonk.