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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (18607)	2/11/2002 7:51:35 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Chants of 'Death to America!' Mark March by Millions in Iran nytimes.com Jim, you may or may not share my mordant amusement with the conclusion of this story. After 23 years, though, the sense of brooding menace that pervaded marches of the past had mellowed. This one felt more like a carnival, complete with a gold coin on offer for the best Uncle Sam effigy. A yellow banner painted with giant letters in Persian was stretched across one overpass. In the early days of the Islamic Republic it would have been automatically translated as "America is the Greatest Satan." But today the lettering helpfully included its own English translation, reading, "America Is Extremely Naughty."

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