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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

Walter Isaacson

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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
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