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" The Syria situation is a mess. Americans don&amp;#039;t support military intervention, and Washington is chugging closer and closer to launching missiles anyway. What&amp;#039;s worse, when our reporters ask questions of the government on what is happening and why, the answers are far from clear. There was no better demonstration of that than the State Department&amp;#039;s news conference over the weekend led by Deputy Spox (that&amp;#039;s DC speak for spokewoman, and we like it) Marie Harf. Under attack -- and rightfully so -- Harf used every tool in her belt. She bobbed and weaved, smiled and sneered, spoke in long sentences that we would hate to see transcribed. She was, in fact, generally not very helpful. As much as we&amp;#039;d like to see more straight talk from that podium, though, we noticed a few other things. Her blonde locks that curve just so. Her trendy glasses, which one expert says make her look &amp;quot;authoritative and older -- thus more experienced.&amp;quot; Her slightly disheveled librarian vibes. Let&amp;#039;s be honest: We&amp;#039;d take her over John Kerry any day. So thank you, Marie Harf, for spicing up government briefings that are so painful to actually watch. And please accept this tweet as our exact position on how we feel about you, right now. And here are a few more from her small but growing fan club:    I just realized Marie Harf is the first hipster @StateDept spox http://t.co/IjhrXpqB9r \u2014 Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 30, 2013       Why didn&amp;#039;t someone mention @Marieharf is GORGEOUS?! \u2014 Doug Montgomery (@Douglife) August 31, 2013    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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