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The view of the White House blowup from Ukraine
Mark Sappenfield
It just so happened that last Friday鈥檚 world-shaking confrontation in the White House occurred just as the Monitor鈥檚 Howard LaFranchi was heading into Ukraine. So, of course, Howard popped off a story on Friday (because that鈥檚 what we journalists do), and today he sets the scene from the streets of Lviv and Kiev. It鈥檚 a remarkable glimpse at a remarkable moment.
