Critics' Voices, Rhetorical Choices

Critics’ Voices, Rhetorical Choices

By Madison Powers and CQ Guest Columnist

Posted March 5, 2009 at 1:00am

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Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His column appears weekly on Friday in CQ Politics.

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