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Just Washington

As she so often is, your blogstress found herself moving against the tide today as she made her way toward the Capitol South subway stop just as hundreds of Hill staffers were ascending from the underground to begin their workdays. Brushing past your cybertrix was a rather rumpled Newt Gingrich , whose very presence among the throng turned a number of heads. Said the lady in the apron who hands out copies of Express , a crib sheet of AP stories produced by the Washington Post : "He looks just like he do on TV." "He sure does," answered a lady in a pants suit, dragging a briefcase on wheels. "You know," said the Express lady, "sometimes they really don't look like theyselves." Now on the escalator, your Web wench gasped as a pertly dressed woman in her 20s said to her male companion, "I wish I had told him that I want him to run for president." Your écrivaine caught her breath. Yes, perhaps it would be a good thing to have Newt