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thenation.com - 1/26/2009

Obama and the Return of the Real

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I see the work of gods who pile tower-high the pride of those who were nothing, and dash present grandeur down. --Euripides, in The Trojan Women , referring to the fall of Troy The inauguration of Barack Obama, "whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local ...

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