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The Examined Life

The name game

By Joshua Glenn
November 21, 2004

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TEN DAYS AGO, in a news story on President George W. Bush's decision to nominate Alberto R. Gonzales as attorney general, New York Times reporters laconically noted of the Bush administration's top lawyer that "the White House declined to release his middle name, saying that Mr. Gonzales prefers the initial." (Full article: 259 words)

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