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Friday, February 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Hillary at twilight

Was her campaign stop in an Ohio town called Hanging Rock a metaphor -- or a symbol of dogged defiance?
By Walter Shapiro

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  • Friday, February 29, 2008 10:28 PM

    Permit me...

    this awkward metaphor: It's one of those 70's "airport" movies--the pilot and co-pilot have succumbed to some mysterious malady, and are dead; the jumbo jet is runaway and out of control. Who do the passangers pick to take the rudder? The woman who has experience and co-piloted jets before, or some guy who's coming on like Gene Hackman in "The Poseidon Adventure"?

    In the runaway jet that is the United States, it's Gene Hackman every time.

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