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Governor James E. McGreevey of New Jersey recently found himself between a rock and a very hard place. It was revealed that Amiri Baraka, who McGreevey had appointed poet laureate of the state of New Jersey, had authored an apparently anti-Semitic poem entitled "Somebody Blew Up America." One stanza of the poem reads:
Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed
Who told 4,000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay home...