Subject: POLITICO Playbook, presented by the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI): MO ELLEITHEE’s boyhood letter to Ali, and the champ’s memorable answer – B’DAY: Ward Baker
From: "Mike Allen" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 08:31:18 -0600

06/05/2016 10:28 AM EDT

By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; [email-masked]) and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; [email-masked])

HILLARY STRATEGERY -- JOHN PODESTA, chair of Hillary campaign, to Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday": "I think the card we're going to play against Trump is that he has always been for himself. He's a self-aggrandizer at the expense of literally thousands of people. And when it comes to Trump University what we learned this week was even his own employees called it a fraudulent scheme."

BREAKING - "Trump shifts position on Libya," by Kyle Cheney: "Trump reversed himself again on Libya on Sunday, saying in an interview that he would have authorized a 'surgical' strike to take out Muammar Qadhafi, after months of telling voters the U.S. would be better off if the dictator were still alive. 'I didn't mind surgical. And I said surgical. You do a surgical shot and you take him out,' Trump [told John Dickerson] on CBS' 'Face the Nation.' 

"It's his latest reversal on a crucial element of the Obama foreign policy. ... Trump told Dickerson: 'I was for something, but I wasn't for what we have right now ... I wasn't for what happened. ... I mean look at with Benghazi and all of the problems that we've had. It was handled horribly. ... I was never for strong intervention. I could have seen surgical where you take out Qadhafi and his group.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768f2a16556d2be4b44893abe2d7459b5ccead4ef5c123fd835 

TRUMP to Dickerson, on Paul Ryan: "He's most appealing. He's a good man. He wants good things for the country. We will agree on many things. We're not going to agree on all things. But we're going to agree on many things."

--On whether he sees yourself as implementing Paul Ryan's agenda as president, or Paul Ryan implementing the Donald Trump agenda: "I think it's going to be a compromise, honestly. I can see a compromise."

SUNDAY BEST ... TRUMP, interviewed by JAKE TAPPER for CNN's "State of the Union" (anchoring from L.A., just yards from Dodger Stadium), on who is to blame for violence at his rallies: "It's very important -- the people that are causing the problem, they're not my people. The people that are outside, they're thugs and they're agitators. They're bad people. I think they're sent by the Democrats."

TAPPER: "Do you have evidence of that?" TRUMP: "Well, they have the Bernie signs."

HOT VIDEO - "Jake Tapper asked Donald Trump if his judge attack was racist - then followed up 23 times" -- 5-min. video http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7687b6d6d8e59de5e9f1ff43ac6014e9b517f909e42758ea1ee

MO ELLEITHEE -- founding executive director of Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service, and HRC and DNC alumnus -- posts on Facebook: "Thirty-three years ago, when I was 10 years old [in Newton, N.J.], I wrote a letter to Muhammad Ali asking him for his autograph. Seven months later, I received a response in the mail written on the back of my original letter. 'Service to others is the rent we pay for our room in the hereafter.' Rest in Peace, Champ."

--MO's letter (on notebook paper, in extremely neat printing): "Dear Mr. Ali, I am 10 years old and in the 6th grade. You and I have a lot in common. You love boxing and I love boxing. You are Moslim, I am Moslim. You're name is Muhammad Ali, my name is Mohamad Aly Elleithee. Is there something you did not do in your career that you wish you had done? What was the first thing you did when you became Heavyweight Champion of the world? Could you please send me your autograph? For your convenience I am enclosing a self-addressed stamped envelope. Thank you for reading my letter. Sincerely yours, Mohamad Aly Elleithee." Mo's letter http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768ab34302b853f9c811a2176f2c69d50ea67d77b5c0b990f8b

--ALI's letter: "To My Brother in Islam from your Brother Muhammad Ali / To Mohamad Aly / Service to others is the rent we pay for our own room in the HEREAFTER [smiley face] Feb 29-84 / Love always." Ali's letter http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7687bbced4503cb961a7a0a5860e73185a5e4e5e0d1af65f46e

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cover, on stands Wednesday, "THE GREATEST": Ali "graces the cover of Sports Illustrated for the 40th time. The portrait was shot by Neil Leifer while Ali trained at 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach on October 9, 1970." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768694761bd5e7fda589f9e1118a73ea166b2b7e71c42759792 

THE NARRATIVE - San Jose Mercury News lead story, "Voters will decide Tuesday if [Clinton] will battle Trump with a limp, or spring in step," by Matthew Artz in Oakland: "In a fitting final chapter to a surreal primary season, California has gotten all the pomp and histrionics of a high-stakes race -- capped off by Thursday's street fights outside a Donald Trump rally in San Jose -- even though the two presidential nominating contests have effectively been over for weeks." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768c8b0d12e4e4e5c5b7aed1e7d3b725647d0f3300f04fc1950

GET SMART FAST - L.A. Times A1, below fold, "Deportations divide activists: Democrats aren't far apart on immigration, but some Sanders backers hold a grudge," by Kate Linthicum: "[A] group of Latino advisors to Bernie Sanders ... are vocally critical of President Obama and his party's record on immigration. [These] Sanders supporters frequently mention the record number of deportations carried out under Obama's watch ... Their prominence in Sanders' campaign underscores how much the race between the Vermont senator and Hillary Clinton has become entangled in ... a long-running battle between Obama and his party's left wing over immigration enforcement." 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7689133fa67f921f9d027f435ede74f83f16dee5c876cba026f

DRUDGE BANNER, "SECRET SERVICE BOOK ROCKS CLINTON CAMPAIGN": "Posted directly outside President Clinton's Oval Office, Former Secret Service officer [not agent] Gary Byrne reveals what he observed of Hillary Clinton's character and the culture inside the White House ... ["Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate," by Gary J. Byrne, "former presidential Secret Service officer," to be published by Center Street, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, on June 28.] 'What I saw in the 1990s sickend [sic] me' ... It ranked #60,436 on AMAZON's bestsellers list late Saturday. ... UPDATE: The book jumped to #1
 after the DRUDGE exclusive." $20.62 on Amazon http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7685e86f8d0a22f7c60820a3f0a77b791d64cde05fc58dba5c9 

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PLAYBOOK IN-BOX -- KURT BARDELLA, publisher of Morning Hangover, sends a pic (with subject line "Dixie Chicks war on Donald trump") of the Dixie Chicks' concert Wednesday night at Cincinnati's Riverbend Music Center, the opening of the group's "DCX MMXVI World Tour." At one point, the backdrop behind them was a big black-and-white pic of Donald Trump, spiced up with horns and a mustache and goatee. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768287fa082de3e0915d0144e70df71fc3d0216919621496c2c ... Cincinatti Enquirer review http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768adae81486c0cd11b980b4515afaf4a51c230e73c2f44f0bf

AP FOR MONDAY PAPERS - "lslamic State kills dozens of its own in hunt for spies," by Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassem Mroue: "[D]ozens of IS members [were] killed by their own leadership in recent months in a vicious purge after a string of airstrikes killed prominent figures. Others have disappeared into prisons and still more have fled, fearing they could be next as the jihadi group turns on itself in the hunt for moles ... The fear of informants has fueled paranoia among the militants' ranks. ... IS 'commanders don't dare come from Iraq to Syria because they are being liquidated' by airstrikes." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768ecd3d8fcbd9f444a507cc50335b3f9a7893a6435b479039c 

HOLLYWOODLAND - L.A. Times photo tease at bottom of A1, with special report in Calendar, "OUR DIVERSE 100 ... FOR THE ACADEMY'S CONSIDERATION: The Academy has a diversity problem, so we decided to help by offering up a list of 100 people who we think could potentially solve it, in advance of the Academy's announcement of its own list in the coming weeks." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768df8d5f1fcb3442d1dc777c67060c7f1919baa573c735ab4f ... "How we came up with our Diverse 100 list, and why Tina Fey and other white people are on it" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7687f32a1e6219ff91d9a38293ca934d4f59bbb7a9246acc56e

TOP TWEET -- @JamesFallows: "It's 48 hrs since HRC ripped pending GOP nominee as unstable, unprepared, ignorant, etc Not aware of *any* GOP figure rising to rebut."

INSIDE THE CAMPAIGNS -- "Trump campaign pays women less than men," by Boston Globe's Matt Viser: "The women who work for Trump - who account for about 28 percent of his total staff - made an average of about $4,500 in April ... The men made nearly $6,100, or about 35 percent more. The disparity is slightly greater than the gender pay gap nationally. Of the 15 highest-paid employees for that month, only two were women. 

"The women working for Clinton - who account for 53 percent of her total staff - took home an average of $3,710. The men made slightly more, at $3,760. ... Trump ... appears to have only three campaign workers who are Hispanic and none are in the top reaches of his campaign. Trump in April had at least four black employees." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7689f7ad65023ccc747a27cd71a8afcb262cbf7fba5df90075f 

DAILY DONALD -- "Tale of Trump and partner in Azerbaijan real estate project," by AP's Jeff Horwitz: "Trump often talks of hiring the best people and surrounding himself with people he can trust. In practice, however, he and his executives have at times appeared to overlook details about the background of people he has chosen as business partners, such as whether they had dubious associations, had been convicted of crimes, faced extradition or inflated their resumes. The Trump camp's screening skills ... would only become more crucial if he won the White House." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768d52832a8fae76577167c2430f0d5a618903542a8f90dfe27 

FIRST LOOK - SEAN SPICER memo, "2383 Or Bust": "While Hillary Clinton will try to claim she's the presumptive nominee, it's worth remembering the DNC has been adamant that superdelegates don't officially count toward a candidate's pledged delegate total until they vote at the convention in July. That means according to the DNC's own rules, if Hillary Clinton doesn't hit 2383 pledged delegates after Tuesday's contests, any attempts to anoint Hillary Clinton the presumptive nominee will be premature." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768a08c83c3036835f950fa25016f491406fe826faa3a2a1bc3 

TRANSITIONS -- Nick Morrow is press secretary for the Southern states at the Human Rights Campaign. He previously was a senior associate at SKDKnickerbocker, where he worked on the media campaigns aimed at bringing nationwide marriage equality since 2013.

2016 PLAYERS -- Margarita Diaz @diazmarg: "Announcement! [Sunday] morning I'm moving to Des Moines to join @HillaryforIA as Digital Director." She was previously a digital associate for HFA in Brooklyn, a digital strategist for New Blue Interactive and an operations intern in the White House.

BONUS GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman:

--"Sixty Million Car Bombs: Inside Takata's Air Bag Crisis," by Susan Berfield, Craig Trudell, Margaret Cronin Fisk, and Jeff Plungis on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek: "How the company's failures led to lethal products and the biggest auto recall in history." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c76843137ca105728cc260c55f829d954cf25dc2acfe63cf1559 ... The cover http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7682c595f46339c4d972b38c860c6fdd76cea5ab351e73ed0e2 

--"An Infantry Squad for the 21st Century," by Jules Hurst in War on the Rocks: "How do you best employ an armed quadruped drone against its counterpart? What does a remotely piloted aircraft dogfight look like? The world's militaries will soon experience the 21st-century equivalent of the first tank-on-tank battle at Villers-Brettoneux in World War I and the first aerial dogfight." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7687eb3b4c038f1184cef39b542533a84d5207b4018dc0ec032 (h/t TheBrowser.com)

--"How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook's War to Crush Google Plus," by former Facebook employee Antonio Garc&iacute;a Mart&iacute;nez in Vanity Fair, in an adaption of "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" (out June 28): "Zuckerberg built not just a business, but a company culture with the fervor of a messianic sect. So, in June 2011, when Google launched Google Plus, Zuckerberg put his company into lockdown" and a war followed. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768c935224bf0305d3cd430d31fedfd9e592f11762fec2cb26e ... Pre-order: $19.22 on Amazon http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7682463cbf8797243e5598545d6d31383614f190ea3ee210f61 

--"Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker," by BuzzFeed's Katie J.M. Baker: "A former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman was sentenced to six months in jail because a longer sentence would have 'a severe impact on him,' according to a judge. At his sentencing Thursday, his victim read him a letter describing the 'severe impact' the assault had on her." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7681b05a8d1d8faf1293be4b33e8ca11f97996e062a725d4ed7 

--"What Made Helen Run?" by Lucy Ellmann in Bookforum, reviewing "Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown," by Gerri Hirshey (out July 12): "The saucy life and times of the Cosmo queen, more or less in her own voice." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768afafc213a204baf59db78ea6117ecd724b63b10202a876d5 ... Pre-order -- $18.92 on Amazon http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7685dd3aa6dc1aab8c20affc2ed16d890ec95124fec594fb44e (h/t ALDaily.com)

--"The Canon Is Sexist, Racist, Colonialist, and Totally Gross. Yes, You Have to Read It Anyway," by Katy Waldman in Slate http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768d1295b2fdee2911ca4590cfc69be3bfbca1cdbeb37767188 

--"John Seabrook and the Modern Song Machine" - Farnam Street blog: "Ever noticed a certain 'sameness' to the pop songs you hear nowadays? ... You're correctly clued in. ... The songs are engineered precisely to hook the listener as soon as possible and then re-expose them to a hook over and over." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7680e7d88851ffda2c1ca1faeda0fb2f1b97eec1335f2fe7814 

--"The Price of a Life," by Sophia McBain in The New Statesman: "In 2014, Islamic State fighters murdered thousands of Yazidis and kidnapped many others, mostly women and children. Their desperate relatives are now trying to buy them back." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768caedbfda0eba222182a51a7f36be309437a8acd2a7efd9ea 

--"DNA: 'The Power of the Beautiful Experiment,'" by H. Allen Orr in the N.Y. Review of Books, reviewing "Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code," by Matthew Cobb: "The DNA sequences that construct the best bodies are more likely to get passed down to the next generation because well-constructed bodies are more likely to survive and thus to reproduce." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7684b45e23d40fbc20f43ebb7c033f19ec9fe6ae20d7ba603fa ... $25.93 on Amazon http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768d036e54c83e58fcd9b729933fc19e0c31318451f71e7db59 

--"The Afterlife of Polaroid," by Frances Richard in The Nation: "The company presents a case study in photography as a phenomenon of the instantaneous." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c76884e038846eac99e8e4ce63bc9df23d12490b05b5059d7c51 

--"Brooklyn Bound," by Dwyer Murphy in Guernica Magazine: "The fight to extradite El Chapo." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768c9895f76a1bec5afd55d3f0344ca7b172bd077c2eb4982e9 (h/t Longform.org)

REBECCA SPICER profile in Beverage Journal http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768e286191ad81ff21275a75144dcec0d3a71088d12442eb453 

TV TONIGHT - GARRETT GRAFF posts on Facebook: "Sick and tired of TSA lines? Set your DVRs Sunday night at 9 pm ET to find out where it all began: I'm part of a National Geographic documentary, 'Jacked,' about the 1972 hijacking of Southern Airways Flight 49. It's [a story] I told in my FBI book, THE THREAT MATRIX-and was really America's first violent hijacking ... cameos by Richard Nixon, H.R. Haldeman, and Fidel Castro, and led to reforms including that all passengers being screened by metal detectors." Trailer http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c76858bbcc9be63786a8eebbb264d64b61c556c37e2c0e745233 ... $15.42 on Amazon http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7685346c749c5fdd763b8490526337b648cc1fa323d08398d30 

OUT AND ABOUT: 94.7 Fresh FM morning show host Tommy McFly's 30th birthday party shut down most of Wolfgang Puck's the Source on Friday night. There was a "Froggy to Prince" cake crafted by Charm City Cakes (McFly's first radio gig was wearing the Froggy costume). 

--SPOTTED: McFly's co-hosts Kelly Collis and Jen Richer, his fianc&eacute; and former Maryland U.S. Senate candidate Chrys Kefalas, Hilary Rosen, Tammy Haddad, Eun Yang, Rebecca Cooper, Matt Glassman, Derrick and Emma Dockery, Virginia Coyne, Larry O'Connor, Erin Willett, Allyson Rae, Kevin Latek, Dan Meyers, Leslie Kimball, Jeff Gygax, Casey Phillips, Matt Seaholm, Stefanie Webb, Ron Steslow, Peter Morris, Riley Roberts, Jake Maccoby, Jill Collins, Mark Isaacson and James Hallman.

SPOTTED last night at the home of birthday girl Amanda Bowkers and her husband, David: Desmond Butler, Jim Sciutto and Gloria Riviera, Nancy Cordes, Patrick Cleary, Julie Mason Ziemba, Sophie Willis. On the mic: Dexter Walker (nephew of George H.W. Bush) ... On the 1s & 2s: D.J. Ben Chang and Steve Landberg.

 WEEKEND WEDDINGS -- Ryan Coyne and Deanna Bigford were married in their hometown, The City of Brotherly Love, on Saturday. Ryan, 28, is part of the founding team of Independent Journal and Deanna, 27, runs sales for ADP in Northern Virginia and Maryland. The high school sweethearts met over ten years ago at a high school dance and have been in love ever since. The ceremony was held at The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, the same place that Popes John Paul II and Francis celebrated Mass.

At the Crystal Tea Room, part of the historic Wanamakers Department Store, guests dined on surf and turf, and got down to the tunes of a 12-piece band, Love Jones. There was a lobster mac n cheese station for the reception. And the desert bar had chocolate shot glasses with Jameson in them. Pics http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7689d9187e90bc08495364597e32e6b14e09a3a0c9121952983 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c76828f29119e30c68f00f564fb05535b0e31e79fcb61b012fe3 ... Insta pic of Benny Johnson and Katelyn Rieley "bowing down to the wedding legends" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768e0c6737cf0c5105a3006b072def872bcd754aaa46f17eae2 ... Pic of the couple on the dance floor http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c76888ac0188907dfae919bddba98ade2e11ea4cadb8685f0627 

--SPOTTED: Carl Sceusa (INJO's CTO, a groomsman and the pride of Staten Island), Benny Johnson and fianc&eacute; Katelyn Rieley, Bubba Atkinson, Matt Manda, Anton Vuljaj, Megan and Tyler Foote, Michelle Jaconi, Jason Fowler, Sarah Fowler, Jordan Gehrke, Dan Dolente, Rosi Velazquez, Caitlin Runyan.

STEVE HADLEY'S DAUGHTER ... Kate Hadley, Sumon Dantiki" - N.Y. Times: "The bride, 29 ... [is] an assistant general counsel in the Office of the United States Trade Representative. She graduated from Stanford and received a law degree from Yale. Her father [Stephen] is a founder of RiceHadleyGates, an international strategic consulting firm in Washington. He was the national security adviser to President George W. Bush from 2004 to 2008. ... The groom, 33, works in Washington as a trial lawyer specializing in cyber crimes, and as a policy adviser for the United States Department of Justice." With pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c76835ffd85c74b948bbdc14657bab82e9cf2aa3cb8750431eb7 

GREG SCHULTZ, special assistant to the president and senior political adviser to the V.P., yesterday married Simone Petrella, who works in cybersecurity. The wedding was at the Inn at Perry Cabin in Maryland, the location of "Wedding Crashers." They met at 930 Club at a Walk The Moon concert. Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c7680f6ab1328188158f7d73e5fda8cb68b1bd42995d2d18a089 

--SPOTTED: Mitch Stewart, Marlon Marshall, Jeremy Bird, Betsy Hoover, Allison Zelman, Chris Wyant, Max Lesko, Lauren Kidwell, Jenn Brown, Stephen Brokaw, Stacy Berger, Kelly Norton, Lynnie Powell, Gabby Seay, Carri Twigg, Alida Garcia, Malik Hubbard. 

"CHARLOTTE ICKES, Clayton Crooks" - N.Y. Times: "Ickes, 30 ... is the Whitney-Lauder curatorial fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. She received a Ph.D. in history of art from the University of Pennsylvania. Her father [Harold] is the chairman of both the Ickes & Enright Group, a Washington government relations firm, and Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein ... He was the deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1994 to 1997. ... 

"The bride's paternal grandfather was Harold L. Ickes. He was the secretary of the interior under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Mr. Crooks, 28, ... is a consultant in the New York office of McKinsey & Company." With pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e328fe092a13c768e9760b1fba969c76e3a652fdc39ee6c30956e88427dadc59 

BIRTHWEEK (was Friday): Dr. Jill Biden ... Andrew Weinstein, a Dole and Newt alum now CEO of Ridgeback Communications (h/t Nihal Krishan)

BIRTHDAYS: Ward Baker, NRSC executive director ... Suze Orman is 65 (hat tip: Hilary) ... Megan Beyer (h/t Ann) ... David Espo, the pride of Pawtucket, RI and proud Haverford alum, whose Twitter bio reads: "Dad, AP Special Correspondent, Dad, Red Sox fan, Dad," is 67 ... Abeer Al Otaiba, founder and creative director of luxury fashion line SemSem ... Bill Moyers is 82 (h/t Leibo) ... Katy Jacqueline Summerlin, comms. director for Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) and a Team Issa and Frank Wolf alum, celebrating in Seattle (h/t Becca Glover Watkins) ... Sam Sifton ... N.Y. Post's Andrea Peyser ... Mike Heimowitz, Managing Director for Burson-Marsteller (h/t Bill McQuillen) ... Rob Engstrom, SVP and
 national political director at the U.S. Chamber ... Elan Kriegel, co-founder of BlueLabs and Battleground States Analytics Director on Obama 2012 ... 

... Politico's Chelsea Raab ... Jordan Ballard ... Matt Vasilogambros of The Atlantic (h/t Rebecca Nelson) ... Shane Pummill ... John D'Adamo, Michigan political campaign czar, now manager of business development at BizBash ... Travis Brock ... Linda Krantz ... Karen Campbell ... Lester Pines ... Carol Guensburg ... Katie Visco (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Ellen Fleysher ... Riley Dickens (h/ts Reed, Ragan, Robbi) ... Aaron Latham ... Raj Khandwalla ... WashPost alum Tony Reid is 59 ... Arnold L. Flowers III ... Eric Wind ... former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark is 77 ... author Margaret Drabble is 77 ... Don Reid (The Statler Brothers) is 71 ... Fred Stone (AKA Fred Stewart) (Sly and the
 Family Stone) is 69 ... author Ken Follett is 67 ... Kenny G is 60 ... Mark Wahlberg is 45 ... actress Sophie Lowe is 26 (h/ts AP)

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