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Bag’s Take-Away:
More intimate than sticking a daisy in a riot cop’s rifle. …Still, If the media and the world has fallen in love with another uprising, how powerful, really, is this woman’s pull?
Update 1/30: Just two days later, “a second kiss” … with more positive implications.
(photo: LEFTERIS PITARAKIS / AP caption: Passion: An Egyptian antigovernment activist kisses a riot police officer during the clashes. Via: Egypt Is Convulsed by Protests - Photo Essays - TIME)
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