Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize
for Distinguished Commentary, Dowd became a columnist with The New York Times in
January 1995 after having served as a
correspondent in the paper's
Washington bureau since August 1986.

I Vant to Be Alone
by Maureen Dowd
New York Times
March 12, 2003

"It will go down as a great mystery of history how Mr. Popularity at Yale metamorphosed into President Persona Non Grata of the world."

IThe genial cheerleader and stickball commissioner with the gregarious parents, the frat president who had little nicknames and jokes for everyone, fell in with a rough crowd. Just when you thought it couldn't get more Strangelovian, it does. The Bush bullies, having driven off all the other kids in the international schoolyard, are now resorting to imaginary friends.

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