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Arabs lavish jewels on Secretary of State Rice (AP)

 
AP - President George W. Bush's foreign policies may be unpopular in the Middle East, but Arab leaders showered his top diplomat with jewelry worth far more than a quarter of a million dollars last year. (link)

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