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Introduction: Sunday, October 28, 2012, 4:00 pm, Larchmont Public Library, 121 Larchmont Ave, Larchmont, NY . I’m picturing a roomful of people like this: On the other hand, when I spoke at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark a few years ago, it was nothing like the Sopranos. . . .
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