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Old man Potter

SHIFTY-EYED and hunkered down in his seat, his uncharitable record of voting against Head Start, Meals on Wheels, and a holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. thrust into public view, Dick Cheney resembled no one so much as curmudgeonly Old Man Potter -- with bright-eyed, idealistic John Edwards confronting him as a latter-day George Bailey.

ELLEN ARGYROS
Needham
 

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