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Condi Rice: too smart to run for the White House

AS the art of diplomacy goes, this meeting called for the skills of a Dali or a Miro, one of those surrealist cats.

Here was Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, in the lair of the mad dog that was Gaddafi. One thought was prominent in her mind: how quickly can I get out of here?

The answer to that was, not before the Libyan leader had shown her a special video he had made for her. Had they been on a date, this is the point at which the police and the impassioned suitor’s psychiatrist would have burst in.

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