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Pentagon Verse

Jesse Walker | 4.3.2003 5:13 AM

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Somewhere between Lao-tse and William Carlos Williams, you'll find Donald Rumsfeld.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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