One Tuesday morning I came in and asked if anyone had seen Monday Night Raw wrestling with Hulk Hogan and the Undertaker. I was met with blank stares and bewilderment from the assembled ambassadors, senior Foreign Service officers, and other intellectual types. I described the match. It was a heavily choreographed ballet, I had to admit, yet the wrestlers showed considerable athletic skill and training as they bounced each other on the mat. The bewilderment remained until I told them why the match interested me. Thirty thousand people had come out on a Monday night in a mid-sized city in the
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