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Today, Slate's Jack Shafer admits that he loves Secretary of Defense Robert Gates—almost as much as Gates hearts the press! Looks to us like it was a smooth move this summer when Gates hired ABC News correspondent Geoff Morrell as the press secretary at the Pentagon. Please send all pix of the inevitable toilet-papering of Morrell's house by his former colleagues in the Washington press corps right to us.