TIME
Diplomats at the ASEAN Regional Forum in Jakarta had front-row seats for COLIN POWELL’S rendition of the ’70s disco hit YMCA. The Secretary of State honored the tradition of wrapping up Asia’s largest security meeting with a night of entertainment by gyrating his hips and singing (off-key): “President Bush, he said to me: ‘Colin, I need you to run the Department of State. We are between a rock and a hard place.'”
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