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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:29 PM, C. G. Estabrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<br><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Sean-Wilentz-Bringing-It-All/124221/" target="_blank"><http://chronicle.com/article/Sean-Wilentz-Bringing-It-All/124221/></a>.</span></span></div></blockquote>
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<div>Pardon? Stupid, benighted me again. What situation? What does "this" imply?</div>