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The O'Neill Death Watch, Part 4An ongoing series on the occupational travails of the Treasury secretary

By Timothy Noah
Posted Sunday, Nov. 25, 2001, at 3:31 PM ET

Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill bruised a rib while playing football with his grandchildren on Thanksgiving Day, necessitating a trip to Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Friday for X-rays. There was no apparent market response.

(For earlier entries in the O'Neill Death Watch, click here, here, and here.)

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