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| | The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | As an Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division, Michael Chertoff is entitled to one of the great old suites in the Justice Department Building—an office with soaring windows, deep-pile carpet, and built-in bookcases. |
 | | The décor is haute prosecutor: an inscribed photograph of Justice William Brennan, Jr., for whom Chertoff clerked; courtroom sketches of Chertoff facing Fat Tony Salerno, the mobster, and Crazy Eddie Antar, the onetime appliance dealer; and Chertoff's official commission, signed by the first President Bush, from his days as United States Attorney in New Jersey. |
 | | Chertoff is forty-seven years old, nearly bald, with a wispy beard, and he has a fluid self-confidence that suggests he hasn't been at a loss for words since kindergarten. |
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