S U N D A Y , M A Y 0 1 , 2 0 0 5Lengthy Bolton Profiles Show 'Softer' Side OfBush's Bitchby Michael in New York on 5/01/2005 12:42:00 PMTwo lengthy profiles of Bush UN nominee John Bolton provide afuller picture of the guy.</p><p> The New York Times gives us his lifestory, with one notable success including working at the UN toget foreign diplomats to agree they'd repeal the UN resolutionequating Zionism with racism.</p><p> The LA Times has a long profiletoo, with its angle being that much of the complaints againstBolton are payback from a far more moderate StateDepartment where he butted heads with Powell and all theless-than-far-right career folk ensconced there. (The StateDepartment was basically enemy territory to the far right.)But here's the less-than-encouraging quote from Condi Riceabout Bolton, per Senate aides."We think that we can control him," Rice told one senator,two Senate aides said. 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