Kerry foreign policy team begins to take shape

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James Rubin has appeared on more than 60 national and foreign television shows over the past few weeks to outline Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's positions on foreign policy, from Iraq to North Korea, terrorism to weapons proliferation.

But don't try to find Rubin, who was a State Department spokesman in the Clinton administration, at Kerry headquarters. The telephone operators say he doesn't work there. And even if they did have his name, they would be hard pressed to locate him in the noisy construction zone where the campaign is racing to carve out offices for Rubin and other recent arrivals to Kerry's foreign policy staff.

With Iraq and other world hot spots emerging as pivotal public concerns, the Kerry campaign is going through serious growth spurts -- and growing pains.



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