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Article: Need to Reach Mark Plotkin? Make Sure the Right One's on Speed Dial
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- The Washington Post
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- November 6, 2006
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Three men walk into a bar: a lawyer, a political commentator and
an ethnobotanist.
All three are named Mark Plotkin.
No, really.
It's the joke the three men have lived with for decades. The
serendipitous nexus of geography, heritage and ambition has resulted
in years of mistaken identity for three Washington area men with
wildly different occupations, yet names identical but for their
middle initials.
In their own circles, they are high-profile figures in demand for
vastly disparate reasons. Now, if only people could keep them
straight.
Mark E. Plotkin the lawyer gets blamed for audacious things the
political commentator says. Mark J. Plotkin the ethnobotanist --
famous for plant ...