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Pictures of the Year Best Photographs Pictures Time MagazineA protester shows red-painted hands to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice before the Secretary testifies
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Confrontation
A protester shows red-painted hands to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice before the Secretary testifies at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on U.S. policy in the Middle East.

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