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• Invisible Enemies

  by Bryan Burrough + Follow

  Vanity Fair | June 2000

  Pseudonymous hackers have invaded hundreds of Web sites, including those of NASDAQ, the Pentagon, the White House, Yahoo, eBay, The New York Times, ABC, and the F.B.I., causing billions of dollars in damage. Tracking the criminals, as the Justice Department has discovered, is nearly impossible.

• Arianna's Virtual Candidate

  by Maureen Orth + Follow

  Vanity Fair | November 1994

  California congressman Michael Huffington is a man of no apparent convictions, except one: that he deserves to be president of the United States. But first the multimillionaire Republican is running for the Senate. Pulling the strings is his wife, socialite Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, the controversial author and New Age minister, who has a mysterious agenda of her own.

• A Face Only a President Could Love

  by Todd Purdum + Follow

  Vanity Fair | June 2006

  Dick Cheney’s public image has hardened into a grim caricature that longtime friends and colleagues don’t recognize: when did the whiz kid with the lopsided smile who ran Ford’s White House turn into the secretive, merciless, Machiavellian figure in the news today?