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Article: A SNACK ATTACK ON THE NATION.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2002
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Byline: JOANNA WEISS Boston Globe
What does it mean, in an age of tight security and international menace, when the president of the United States gets beaten up by a pretzel?
The pictures don't lie, after all. The commander in chief appeared Monday with a puffy lip and a big scrape on his cheek and made sheepish jokes all day about protecting himself from pretzeldom. This after a mysterious incident of which we have only the barest outline: President Bush, watching football with his dogs, eats a pretzel that (in the words of the White House spokesman) does not ``go down right.'' He loses consciousness and hits his head on the furniture.
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