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Eye to Eye in Iraq

by Molly Ivins

AUSTIN, Texas — I think we need to stop President Bush from looking people in the eye. On Tuesday, he told the new prime minister of Iraq that he had come to Iraq to "look you in the eye."

Do we even know if the cultural significance of "looking someone in the eye" is known or accepted in the Middle East? Even if Middle Easterners are kindly disposed toward looking one another in the eye — say it's not considered rude or worse — would they know wha ...

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