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Jonathan Alter
Dick Armey
Flavia Colgan
Charlie Cook, Jr.
Craig Crawford
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Peggy Noonan
Lawrence O’Donnell
Kim SerafinJONATHAN ALTER Jonathan Alter graduated from Harvard in 1979, was an editor of the Washington Monthly in 1981-82, and remains a contributing editor. He joined Newsweek in 1983, where he is a senior editor and columnist. He joined NBC News as a contributing correspondent in 1996 and appears frequently on the “Today” show, NBC Nightly News and MSNBC. He is married, has three children, and lives in Montclair, New Jersey.  | House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas
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DICK ARMEYDick Armey currently serves as Senior Policy Advisor for Piper Rudnick LLP, a national law firm with one of the most advanced Federal Affairs and Legislative practices in the nation. He is also Co-Chairman of Citizens for a Sound Economy on of the nation’s leading conservative public policy advocates. He left the US House of Representatives in January, 2003 after serving for 18 years, the last eight as Majority Leader. He has served as the ranking Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, Chairman of the Republican Conference and, most recently, as Chairman of the Select Committee on Homeland Security. Prior to entering politics, Armey taught Economics at the University of North Texas.
FLAVIA COLGAN After graduating Harvard University with Honors, Flavia returned to her home state of Pennsylvania and served as a political consultant and/or campaign manager to several state-wide races. She was then appointed Chief of Staff to the Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, the first woman and youngest to serve in this capacity. She also co-hosted a morning public affairs radio program in the Philadelphia area, and has been profiled in numerous magazines and newspapers. Colgan also devotes time to charitable work on children’s issues, among them, serving on the board of The Boys and Girls Club of America and on the committee for Children Uniting Nations. In addition to writing political commentary, she has also interviewed some notable celebrities, including Walter Cronkite, Gloria Estefan, and Prince Albert of Monaco. CHARLIE COOK, JR. Charlie Cook is Editor and Publisher of The Cook Political Report, and political analyst for the National Journal Group, where he writes weekly for National Journal magazine and CongressDailyAM . He also writes a regular column for the Washington Quarterly, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and is a political analyst for NBC News. The New York Times has called Cook, “...one of the best political handicappers in the nation” and noted that The Cook Political Report is “...a newsletter that both parties regard as authoritative.” The Wall Street Journal’s Al Hunt has called Cook “the Picasso of election analysis,” while David Broder of The Washington Post has written that Charlie Cook is “perhaps the best non-partisan tracker of Congressional races.” CRAIG CRAWFORDCraig Crawford is a columnist and special contributor for Congressional Quarterly. For the past six years, Crawford has run The Hotline, a daily online political briefing published by the National Journal Group. Previously he was a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, where he covered political campaigns throughout the South. Crawford was the newspaper’s Washington bureau chief from 1989 to 1997. Before becoming a journalist, he served in 1984 as the Alabama State Field Director for the John Glenn presidential primary campaign, and the Georgia State Field Director for the Mondale/Ferraro general election campaign. DORIS KEARNS GOODWINMs. Goodwin is the author of No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (1993). The book received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History. She has also written about other presidents and their families. Her works include The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987), which was made into a six hour television mini-series on ABC in 1990, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976). Ms. Goodwin worked as an assistant to President Johnson during his last year in the White House and later assisted him in the preparation of his memoirs. Ms. Goodwin holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. She also taught government at Harvard for ten years, including a course on the American Presidency. She is an avid baseball fan and was the first woman journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room. Doris served as a consultant for Ken Burns’ PBS documentary The History of Baseball. PEGGY NOONANNoonan is a best-selling author of five books on American politics, history, and culture. Her latest book, “A Heart, A Cross, and A Flag,” a collection of Noonan’s columns, will be published by Simon and Shuster this June. In the spring of 2000 Noonan became a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page website and contributing editor to the newspaper. In 2002, Noonan was nominated for an Emmy Award for writing a post-9/11 television special, “America: A Tribute to Heroes,” and has been an Emmy-nominated advisor to NBC’s primetime drama, “The West Wing.” In 1988 Noonan was chief speechwriter for George Bush’s presidential campaign. From 1984 to 1986, Noonan was special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. Prior to that, Noonan was a producer at CBS News in New York, where she wrote and produced Dan Rather’s daily radio commentary, and produced specials for CBS News. LAWRENCE O'DONNELLLawrence O’Donnell is also MSNBC’s Senior Political Analyst and a panelist on“The McLaughlin Group.” He has been a frequent contributor on “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” as well as NBC’s “The Chris Matthews Show.” O’Donnell has also served as anchor on MSNBC political programming including “Real Time.” Prior to joining MSNBC, O’Donnell served as Chief of Staff to the Senate Finance Committee from 1993-1995. The Finance Committee has jurisdiction over legislation involving taxation, international trade, health care, Social Security, welfare and other income security programs. KIM SERAFIN Kim Serafin began her political career in 1993 as a campaign volunteer on Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s successful Mayoral campaign. She continued on into the Giuliani Administration in 1994, working as a Deputy Press Secretary to the Mayor while at the same time, attending New York University as an Honors Scholar and graduating with a BA in politics and journalism. After four years in the Giuliani administration, she moved to Los Angeles where she served as Deputy Press Secretary to Mayor Richard Riordan. Kim returned to New York in 1999 as the Press Secretary for NYC 2000, New York City’s official Millennium Committee, where she was the spokesperson for all official millennium events in New York City including First Night events and integral in the Times Square celebration. In the fall of 2001, Kim worked on the Twin Towers Fund, Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Fund to benefit families of the uniformed service heroes who sacrificed their lives on September 11th. She was also a consultant to NYC & Co, the city’s convention and visitor’s bureau, serving on the NYC Crisis Communications Committee. Kim is currently a political consultant and writer, and hosts a weekly radio show on KABC Radio. Kim is a published writer, and has written opinion pieces for major publications including the New York Post and Cosmopolitan. © 2004 MSNBC Interactive |  | Hardball Section Front |
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