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Princess of Speed: Three and a Half Hours with the Secretary of State

The hotel is at the other end of the government district, near Capitol Hill and the Library of Congress, where I would present a lecture on a classical Brazilian author the next day. When I tell the taxi driver that we have to be at the State Department in twenty minutes, his black forehead wrinkles. That might be difficult, he says, because of a Latino demonstration against the new immigration laws. Nervously I ask if there is some shortcut and add in a half whisper that I have an appointment with the Secretary. "Good girl," says the driver jovially but...