He was there in the motorcade, driving to Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, when press secretary Ari Fleischer first got a "page" on his pager -- "Back then, we didn't have BlackBerrys, " said Draper -- alerting the White House that a single plane had hit the World Trade Center.

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Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty and Cory Booker and many other advocates of school choice and accountability are liberals (though one wonders about Rhee).

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The taste for satire started at Shrewsbury School, where he wrote for the school newspaper, as did his near contemporaries, Christopher Booker, Richard Ingrams and Willie Rushton.

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