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‘Mushroom Cloud’ Rice, The Icy Spinmeister, Tries Again

Condi takes her "birth pangs" mantra on the road.

Calvin Trillin

August 10, 2006

It’s just the birth pangs of the new Mideast, Rice says, in any place the jet can get her. If what we see now is the new Mideast, I’d have to say I liked the old one better.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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