PAGING MR. ROGET

George W. appears to have found le mot juste to describe everyone from his Cabinet nominees to his closest relatives.

On John Ashcroft: "A good man. He's got a good heart."

On Colin Powell: "A good friend and a good man."

On Donald Rumsfeld: "A good man, an honorable man."

On Paul O'Neill: "I look forward to having this good man by my side."

On John McCain: "A good man and a fighter."

On brother Jeb: "What a good man. What a solid citizen."

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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