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Oil Prices Fall as Rice Arrives in Mideast

· Monday, July 24, 2006 · 1 comment

The YahooNews headline “Oil prices fall as Rice arrives in Mideast” put me in mind of the climactic scene at the end of the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie, where our hero flew around the globe several times at more than light speed, thereby reversing time. Clearly, Condi Rice has similar powers.

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James Joyner
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  1. arky says:
    Tuesday, 25 July 2006 at 10:10

    I envisioned boatloads of sacks of rice being unloaded in the ports…

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