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The experience was formative, says Eric Goosby, a distinguished professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who met Fauci in the 1980s and has been a frequent guest at his friend's pasta Bolognese dinners. ("He'll call me days before to make sure I'm still coming," he says with a laugh.) "Tony was deeply affected by exposure to the Jesuit order, which fostered in him a self-expectation of service," says Goosby. "This guy goes to sleep and wakes up asking, 'Have I done everything I can do?' It's in his DNA." As is a fierce work ethic. In summers during college, Fauci worked construction. As the story goes, one job found him helping on a new building at the Cornell Medical College. Fauci vowed one day he would be an alum, and made it happen. "That story says it all to me," says his friend Gabbe. "He just has this powerful drive that won't be stopped. The same thing happened when he graduated and told people he was going to the NIH to study infectious diseases. People told