. . . "iaries who are able to hurry from one wing of the palace to another, making mischief and policy as they go.??? That???s a passage that might have come straight from the pages of Castiglione???s The Courtier, but it???s also a fair description of the way the neoconservatives conduct their business.A palimpsest is a parchment on which words are written over and over again, each act of writing partia" .