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" Katie Levinson sits in Andrew&amp;#039;s Coffee Shop, two blocks from her office on New York City&amp;#039;s busy Fulton Street, nibbling on white melba toast and gearing up for the afternoon ahead. As communications director for Rudy Giuliani&amp;#039;s presidential campaign, she has to be prepared for anything.  Levinson, 32, has a professional and personal stake in getting Giuliani elected. She was on Capitol Hill the day of the terrorist attacks; after the jet flew into the Pentagon, just four miles from her office, she remembers driving home and seeing &amp;quot;guys with machine guns on every corner.&amp;quot; She believes Giuliani is the right man for the job and that he&amp;#039;ll &amp;quot;keep us safe.&amp;quot;  To that end, Levinson is working long hours on his behalf. Each day, she leaves her one-bedroom apartment at dawn, stops at Dunkin&amp;#039; Donuts for coffee (&amp;quot;half-decaf, half-caf \u2014 black&amp;quot;), and plows through a 2-inch stack of newspaper clippings at the office. She attends a 7:30 a.m. staff meeting, fields reporters&amp;#039; calls, and receives hundreds of e-mails by the hour. &amp;quot;Three in the afternoon is generally when something pops,&amp;quot; she says. That often means an attack from an opponent. It&amp;#039;s part of Levinson&amp;#039;s job to fire back at presidential hopefuls, like Joe Biden (&amp;quot;I, Katie Levinson, have a better chance of becoming president than he does&amp;quot;) and John Edwards (&amp;quot;You almost have to feel sorry for the guy&amp;quot;) when they criticize her candidate. She&amp;#039;s used to the fray. She was raised with two older brothers in Connecticut; their father, who worked on Wall Street, &amp;quot;would scream at the TV and fax the White House&amp;quot; if he was unhappy about politics. Later, she earned a master&amp;#039;s degree from the London School of Economics, and eventually went on to serve as communications director for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger&amp;#039;s campaign.  For Levinson, the idea that female voters have special concerns, different from men&amp;#039;s, is &amp;quot;curious,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;One of the things that&amp;#039;s appealing about Mr. Giuliani is that he has the exact same conversation if he&amp;#039;s sitting in front of a group of women as he would have in front of a group of men.&amp;quot; He is &amp;quot;a genuine guy,&amp;quot; she continues, noting that he doesn&amp;#039;t act one way in public and another in private.  Giuliani speaks plainly, &amp;quot;from the gut,&amp;quot; she says, adding that she has a very clear idea of what he believes in. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s not a lot of gray.&amp;quot; Some people say that style might backfire when it comes to foreign policy. But it works for the campaign. &amp;quot;Black and white is a lot easier to communicate,&amp;quot; Levinson says. In other words, Giuliani is a communications director&amp;#039;s dream \u2014 at least according to the woman who has the job. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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