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Wild ride, wild week. Now what?

BARRIE MCKENNA

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

WASHINGTON — There's a memorable scene in The Wizard of Oz when an outraged Dorothy learns the mighty wizard is just an old man behind a curtain, blowing smoke out of a machine. “If you were really great and powerful, you'd keep your promises,” Dorothy chastises after the wizard balks at taking her home to Kansas. “… You're a bad man.

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