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I BECAME a lecturer at a university when I was 21, fresh out of college. The most dreadful experience in my neophyte year there was not to address a class of eight or 80, but to walk to my class past the corner where all the university's student/political... ...full story at The Nation

from The Nation on Thu, Mar 19 2009

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