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"If our people studied calculus like we studied basketball," my
father, age 91, once remarked as we drove past a packed inner-city
basketball court at midnight, "we'd be running M.I.T."
		-- Henry Louis Gates Jr., "Breaking the Silence", The
		   New York Times, August 1, 2004 
		   http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/opinion/01gates.html

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