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Chatto: The Life and Times of an Anti-Imperialist in Europe
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Chatto is an evocative account of the astounding career and politics of Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, an heroic revolutionary leader. Based on meticulous research, it brings to light his propaganda against the British in India in the foreign press and his political activities in Europe, and
provides a stunning new perspective to the revolutionary nationalist activities in India.
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Adams, an independent scholar affiliated with the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., has produced a breezy account of tax revolt in American history, from the Stamp Act to the present day. Although there is scarce opportunity in the book's 242 pages to delve into the details of such pivotal events in early American history as Shay's Rebellion and the collapse of the Federalist Party, Adams does consistently manage to choose those details which best support his thesis that "excessive" taxation is a form of government tyranny. This leads to interesting interpretations of history such as his sympathetic description of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan as an underground resistance movement against federal tax collectors. Adams also provides a full litany of charges of present-day assaults on liberty by the IRS. There is throughout a certain sense of preaching to the choir, quite understandable given the subject matter. However, those who pick up the book not thoroughly convinced that taxes are at best a necessary evil might welcome more history and less rhetoric.
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In 1798, after Congress had passed its first direct tax on houses, the government cooked up a scheme to count and measure the windows on every taxpayer's house, in order to calculate how much to charge. But German settlers in eastern Pennsylvania would have none of it. They organized into small bands, armed themselves, and scoured the countryside for assessors who were seized, assaulted, and driven across county lines. When some of the rebels were arrested, an auctioneer named John Fries marched on the courthouse and freed them. President John Adams called out the militia. Fries was arrested, tried for treason, and sentenced to be hanged.
It was hardly the first tax revolt in American history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Whiskey Rebellion to the Fries Rebellion, the late eighteenth century in America was full of armed violence in response to hated taxes. Yet, as Charles Adams recounts in this remarkable book, the Fries Rebellion was also far from the last of its kind.
Throughout its history America has been home to a series of little-known tax rebellions. These rebellions have played major roles in the presidencies of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and many of their successors. They have helped bring about the Civil war, the birth of the Ku Klux Klan, and, ironically, the birth of the Internal Revenue Service. When the old Internal Revenue Bureau was strengthened to control moonshiner tax rebels in the Appalachias, it started a "Second Whiskey Rebellion" that continues even today. Country singer George Jones' popular ballad recalls:
G-Men, T-Men, Revenuers too, looking for the place where my pappy made his brew.
Today, as long-overdue calls for abolishing or overhauling the IRS are finally being heard in the halls of Congress, Those Dirty Rotten Taxes teaches us that we are continuing a long and vitally important American tradition. We have overthrown the tyranny of British taxes, Federalists' taxes, the Tariff, and the Revenuers' system. Has the tyranny of the Income Tax finally had its day?
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Biased presentation of Adam Smith and Thomas Paine.......2007-03-25
The author presents Adam Smith and Thomas Paine as perhaps the book's two greatest heroes and cites them extensively. Yet, in apparent zeal for the rights of the wealthy, the author throughout the book disdains progressive taxation, tax exemptions for the poor, and estate and inheritance taxes, arguing that "All wealth, labor included, should pay its share of the cost of maintaining the common government. Even in ancient Rome, widows and orphans paid their small mite, and their contributions were set aside to provide uniforms for the cavalry." The author conveniently ignores what Smith and Paine had to say on these subjects.
Smith thought that taxing the wages of labor and/or consumption taxes on the "necessaries of life" (construed broadly to include what was necessary not just for bare subsistence but for "decency") was inequitable, inefficient, and "absurd." He also wrote in Book V of the Wealth of Nations:
"The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."
Thomas Paine in later life extended his critique in Common Sense of inherited political power to a critique of inherited economic power. In his pamphlet Agrarian Justice, Paine argued for the adoption of an inheritance tax to balance out the unfair distribution of "landed property." For Paine, it was common sense that God gave "the Earth as an inheritance" to all of God's children. Paine proposed that the inheritance tax be used to create a national fund that would give a specified sum to everyone turning 21 years old as compensation for the loss of their natural birthright to joint proprietorship in the Earth.
The Only Certain Things in Life: Taxes, and more Taxes.......2006-05-26
Author Charles Adams is a former lecturer at UCLA and a tax consultant with the CATO Institute, a Washington D.C. Think Tank. He has written many publications on the subject of taxes, with most all of them attacking the present system of income tax and discussing ways to improve the system of internal revenue collection.
This book is mostly a lesson in history and it explains in detail how certain taxes came into being and how the American people reacted. Much of the coverage here is old news, like the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the protests that led to the American Revolution. But then there are other taxes that are not so well- known, like the tariffs that led to the Civil War in the 1800's. Most people think the Civil War was fought over slavery, but this was only one reason among many. Adams shows how Lincoln deliberately used taxes to antagonize the South, leading ultimately to war, which was exactly what he wanted.
The income tax is the one that most Americans know best, because it's the tax that everyone pays at present. Woodrow Wilson was president when the income tax became law. Officials who passed the tax swore that it would never be greater than a few percentage points and it would never be levied against anyone except the very wealthy. Of course, as everyone knows, this was a blatant lie to sell the plan to the states and to the general public. Once the ability to tax was in place, it was only a matter of a few years before it expanded and grew to several times the original level. Adams talks at length about the deceptions used by politicians to get this and other taxes enacted.
Adams spends most of the book talking about the income tax and possible alternatives to the tax. One part of the book is titled "The tyranny of the income tax, 1913 to 199?". This book was published in 1998. Adams was being very optimistic if he thought the income tax would be a thing of the past only 1 year after he published his book. The use of the question mark shows his optimism that the income tax will be replaced with a different system of taxation at some point in the near future.
This book is a fairly quick read. The print is larger than normal and many of the pages include illustrations, with political cartoons and photos from the past, mocking the government's position on taxation. The cartoons are mostly humorous in nature, and they depict different political figures and other people talking cynically about different taxes and their affects on the people.
Overall, this is a good book about the issue of taxation and rebellion. It's obviously biased against taxes, but author Charles Adams maintains a level of respect throughout, stating some of the facts about taxes and offering up alternatives to the present system. He doesn't resort to name- calling, like some other authors. You can tell that Adams is no friend of taxation, but he basically lets you, the reader, decide for yourself about this difficult issue and how it has affected Americans from the early days of the republic.
Entertaining vignettes of citizens resisting the taxman.......2004-08-15
This book is for general reading and should not be confused with a scholarly history of taxation. It is a series of chapters that are brief retellings of various historical incidents involving citizens resisting taxation in various ways or citizens being made to suffer through taxation programs. These tellings do have a point of view and historians may find some of them rather blunt and ignoring certain subtleties that might mitigate some of the author's point of view. However, in total the book does make its point that it is up to the citizens to hold the government responsible for its spending and the taxation it levies to pay for that spending.
While I abhor taxation beyond what is absolutely necessary, I think all the arguments about taxes actually function to distract us from the real thing we should be debating and that is government spending. The problem is that the modern state has so many of us on the receiving end of this or that program that we will resist any program that decreases the increase in our program's spending (let alone any actual cuts). So, when someone proposes ANY cut in spending, those being cut raise a loud resistance effort to defeat it. This is why we try and starve the government by cutting taxes - the hope being that the starved beast will not be able to increase the handouts without limit.
Anyway, this can be an entertaining read. There is a list for further reading and an index. Just don't take everything in here as gospel.
Not too good.......2001-04-25
I was very disappointed with this book after hearing positive reveiws from many others. It is hard to take a book seriously that makes controversial historical claims, and then fails to footnote the sources. I found the writing to be dull and many historical facts to be in error. If you are looking for a good book on the history of taxation, do not look here.
one of the best histories I've read in a while.......2000-02-16
This book lay on my shelf some time before I finally got to it. Probably the word "taxes" sounds of bordom and generally negative overtones, but as I finish this book tonight I have found that I thoroughly enjoyed it. I highly recommend it to the history buff and tax-hater in all of us, excepting democrats [socialist], of course. The chapters dealing with the War for Southern Independence are especially interesting: Lincoln and the so-called moral North get a good ol woodshed whooping. One they deserve--for we all know that money and not morals has always been their priority. A great great book.
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Winterthur offers a rare combination of beauty, history, art, and learning. Nestled in the scenic Brandywine Valley of Delaware, the estate is the former home of three generations of du Ponts, including Henry Francis du Pont, a scion of the family whose industrial achievements played a significant role in American history. Entering the estate, visitors encounter tangible reminders of its past. Rolling meadows, freshwater ponds, stone bridges, greenhouses, dairy barns, a vast garden, workers' housing, and an imposing mansion all remind us of the days when Winterthur figured prominently in the American country estate movement. In the 1920s, the property encompassed more than 2,600 acres and housed some 250 resident workers. It consisted of numerous farms; the finest dairy herd of Holstein-Friesian cattle in America; an expansive, wooded landscape with a naturalistic garden; and a family manor house that provided the perfect setting for country-house weekend entertaining.
While developing the family home as a country estate and collecting the finest American decorative arts, H. F. du Pont was also beginning to envision a wider role for his Winterthur--one that would eventually include opening the mansion and grounds to the public, offering all a glimpse of life in the past: "My idea of Winterthur is that it is a country estate museum, to show Americans of the future what a country place and farm were like." Since 1951, its guests have enjoyed just that experience.
Today Winterthur's thousand-acre estate offers much for visitors to explore: a world-class museum of decorative arts that celebrates the best in style and craftsmanship; a romantic landscape of incomparable beauty that imparts the peace and great calm of a country place; a naturalistic garden that combines the art of horticulture and landscape design; and a superlative research library that supports Winterthur's graduate programs in early American culture and art conservation.
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Best affordable coffee table type Winterthur resource book.......2007-08-24
This book contains the best color photography of any of the du Pont history type books I've collected before my first time visit to Winterthur this fall(2007)
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Handmade books can speak volumes (pardon the pun) about the person who created them. Some see the process as a craft; Alisa Golden treats it as an art form. Unwilling to make a choice between writing and art, Golden discovered that by making her own books she could do both, each enhancing the other. Her meticulously constructed creations are intricately folded; cleverly cut; carefully bound; adorned with letterpress, linoleum cuts, silkscreen, acrylic paints, rubber stamps, collage, decorative papers, and other ephemera; and filled with poetry, stories, images, or sometimes just snatches of words and abstract streaks of color. After nearly two decades of making books, she's still excited by each new production. That excitement comes through as she leads us on a journey of discovery from inception to finished book. Extensive directions and detailed diagrams teach us how to construct cut and folded books, sewn and/or glued structures, soft- and hardcover bindings, and variations such as portfolios, presentation boxes, and Jacob's ladder books.
Golden's own very interesting works are amply illustrated, but they are there for inspiration, not to be slavishly imitated. Beginners therefore may be somewhat intimidated; despite the thorough instructions, readers are called upon to use their imaginations when envisioning their own books. But Golden provides plenty of suggestions on finding content to fill these creations, advising us to experiment with words as we do with art materials. With her loving encouragement, even newcomers to the field will be rewarded--probably even more so than if they had simply copied someone else's designs. --Amy Handy
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Everyone has a story to tell--so make your own book to tell it with! From the scissors that snip the pages to the glues and stitches and ties that bind them; from elaborate compound structures with pockets to multiple signatures in a thick, sewn volume, here are the techniques you need and the styles you want. Cut and fold pages in a simple accordion, or hide a second book inside. Create pop-ups, fan, and slot-and-tab books. Construct handscrolls and hanging ones, soft- and hardcovers, even portfolios and boxes. Hundreds of illustrations and diagrams will guide you, and dozens of striking pictures will seize your imagination! The author lives in Berkeley, CA. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10. NEW IN PAPERBACK
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The anti-digital antidote.......2006-08-05
Well our world is just an overabundance of digital virtuality anymore! I love that this book introduces me to so many ways to use my hands in a very tactile form of artmaking. Each of the various bookforms illustrated by Alisa Golden are clearly described with articulate and methodical steps. The bookforms themselves are terrific creativity starters and a nice introduction to the medium for students. As a visual art educator, I've enjoyed bookmaking with students of many ages. Golden's examples are appropriate for middle school, high school, and even college level art bookmakers. I also enjoy her other title, "Unique Handmade Books."
try something else.......2003-07-15
I would not recommend this book if you are trying to learn how to create your own journals/books. I found this book to be more about the "artist" Alisa Golden and what she has created than about teaching me how to do it. There are examples of books you would never want to create. It does provide some useful instruction, but I thought "Handcrafted Journals, Albums, Scrapbooks, and more" by Marie Browning was much more helpful for what I wanted.
Get Published Your Way.......2003-01-24
Gifts, photo albums, story books. The possibilities are endless.
If you have some paper, a pair of scissors and a few other inexpensive items like thread and glue, you are ready to get creative.
You can create:
Cut and Folded Books
Simple Sewn Structures
Hanging Scrolls
Pocket Books
Jacob's Ladders
Clamshell boxes - to store handwritten letters
Pocket Folders
Folded Envelopes
I was interested in the "chain stitch" books because I think it is one of the prettiest ways to bind a book especially when you can see the chains in colors that match the cover.
There is a list of Basic terms, lists of materials needed and lots of great step-by-step instructions.
Good place to jump start your creativity.
A beautiful as well as useful book.......2002-07-07
Creating Handmade Books has a wealth of solid information, but its most striking feature lies in the excellent and beautiful examples of artist books. Golden's how-to book is a pleasure to read. The techniques are not only illustrated with first-rate work, but the entire presentation is well-designed and attractive as well.
Not just another bookmaking book.......2001-09-28
Tired of buying a book making book and getting yet another 100 accordian folds and stab bindings? (although it has those too) This book has a very nice variety of styles.
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An increasingly popular craft trend receives awe-inspiring treatment by a major artist. Alisa Golden (Creating Handmade Books) has created a spectacular guide sure to enlighten both beginners and more advanced students. She provides invaluable instruction on structure--which is where newcomers will focus their energies first--as well as design and content, for those who already have some experience. From measuring and scoring to folding and cutting, from tools for bookbinding to useful media for writing and image-making, there's a rich store of information on the craft--and a wonderfully wide range of projects, too. Make accordion and flag books, including miniature volumes; side bindings, with cross stitching or laced edges; sewn signatures; portfolios; pop-ups; and other creative styles.
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Instructive and Inspirational.......2007-09-28
After reading several books on bookbinding, this is one of my favorites that I find myself going back to again and again for both instruction and inspiration. On the craft of bookbinding, the instructions are clear and there are a number of interesting structures to explore. This book also moves into the realm of book artist, with the author explaining how she uses her experiences to develop content for her books.
After making blank books for some time, it's exciting to be inspired to develop books where both form and content work together.
Definitely worth having in your library.
great and insightful.......2006-03-14
a great book full of ideas and instruction. helpful ideas about text production - buy it
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ASIN: 0736422331
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Cinderella, Snow White, Jasmine, and Belle come to life as four paper dolls, each with outfits that girls will love trying on them. Pretending has never been so fun! And especially for fancy young princesses, the back cover features four cutout bracelets.
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Kindness is catchy and it is spreading throughout the Hundred-Acre- Wood. This book is jam-packed with friendship images to paint that are perfect for Pooh Friendship Month.
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Put on your pads and helmet or the puzzles, games, and codes in this book will have your brain totally tweaked! The bonus full-color card stock creates a totally extreme tabletop hockey game!
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Sleeping Beauty Activity Pad
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Urban Forms, Suburban Dreams (Studies in Architecture and Culture)
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"A perfect companion text for graduate courses on family theories. It is refreshing to have a single author pull no punches in articulating a viewpoint on where we have gone astray in family theory and how we can find our way again. Jim White has accomplished the nearly impossible mission of being informative, balanced, clear, and provocative at the same time."
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University of Minnesota
"Professor White has written a 'must-read' book for anyone interested in family theory. This well-written and timely text . . . tackles difficult topics head on, offering pragmatic solutions and nicely nuanced insights.
Advancing Family Theories is exactly the sort of book that lends itself well to both the classroom and more specialized theoretical and empirical work."
-Jay Teachman,
Western Washington University
How can the study of families be scientific? What is the difference between postmodern and positivistic approaches? What is the role of models and metaphors in constructing our theoretical knowledge? In
Advancing Family Theories, author James M. White addresses such difficult questions that have been longstanding issues within the field of family studies and examines these matters from a social science perspective.
Advancing Family Theories explores two contemporary theories of the family-rational choice theory and transition theory. These diametrically different approaches illuminate what differing theories reveal about families. The book also discusses how meta-theories can assist in building and refining theory and offers insight on the "understanding versus explanation" debate.
Advancing Family Theories gives students a precise notion of what a theory is and how theories work in research. The book not only looks at philosophical realms but also examines particular substantive theory to explain and predict family behaviors.
Key Features
- Uses a theme of "models and metaphors" to unite what often seems to be conflicting approaches to theory and context
- Allows readers to view differing research as theoretical and complementary rather than competitive and exclusive
- Shows how to develop thesis research questions and how to identify theory relevant to substantive research interests
Advancing Family Theories is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on family theory, research, and methods.
It is an excellent supplement to
Family Theories, Second Edition (SAGE, 2002), or is effective on its own. The book helps students with the task of taking abstract and very general theories and reducing them to a level of specific research models and hypotheses.
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The cure for Insomnia .......2005-08-06
I had to read this book for school, and that is the only thing that kept me motivated to read it! It is informative, but extremely boring! I have read many text books and this is hands down the worst second only to Family Theories: An Introduction also by White. This man knows his stuff, but he can not write. The book outlines family theories in a way that makes a visit to the dentist look fun. He covers the subject he set out to do that is the only reason I gave him two stars. If you are a professor considering this book please reconsider, if you have any compassion for your students, however, if you are basically EVIL and want to make student suffer this is the book for you!
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- totally useless, not even for diehard fans
- Read The Liner Notes
- An informative, unauthorized, rock music biography.
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There's Something About Jonathan: Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
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totally useless, not even for diehard fans.......2001-06-21
There is too much gushing about Jonathan and too little hard information. It really gets sickening very quickly. And much of the author's praise is directed at praising the profundity of the lyrics, which is ridiculous. The early Modern Lovers lyrics were clever and they had that beautiful crazy, confused teenager intensity and authority that teenagers have about their emotions, but they're not profound. In fact, they're embarrasingly self concious, pretentious and preachy at times. Anyway, the author totally kills all the spontaneity of the songs by analyzing them that way. Also, the analysis seems very cold and academic, like someone writing a PhD thesis. The whole book comes across as more of an effort by the author to bask in Richman's reflected glory, than as a serious musical biography. Also, the author writes as if he's talking to himself, as if he's not even aware that other people might try to read what he's written.
I have to admit to being a big fan of the original Modern Lovers. And also, that I never had much use for the follow on, mostly acoustic, backing bands that Richman assembled. That said, I have to say that, in my opinion, this book does an incredible disservice to Jerry Harrison and his contribution to the original Modern Lovers. The whole band was very good, but I believe Harrison was crucial to giving the Modern Lovers their musical (as opposed to lyrical) originality and overall riveting feel. This book relegates Harrison to just some interchangable back-up musician. Without Harrison, I bet that the Modern Lovers and Jonathan Richman wouldn't be remember half as well as they are today.
This book was a real tedious chore to plow through, and the nuggets of real info were so few and far between, that any possibility of a coherent picture emerging was completely lost.
The title is supposed to refer to a movie that Richman had a hand in, called "Something About Mary". A better title would
have been "What's It All About, Jonathan"?
Read The Liner Notes.......2000-10-03
Tim Mitchell tried, and he should be commended for his efforts to bring this unknown folk virtuoso to light. Unfortunately, this book is a bore. Richman's polite decline to comment on his past in the Modern Lovers probably has something to do with the lack of new, interesting information, but it does not excuse the overall quality of this book. Page after page of tedious explanation of the Modern Lovers' changing line-up and setlist, peppered only occasionally with uninteresting tidbits of "insider information" (one time Jonathan's mother embarrassed him by making him try on a "woolly sweater" in front of the other Modern Lovers!) make this book impossible to get through. I'm a huge fan of the Modern Lovers and Jonathan's solo work and only made it about halfway through. Outside of a few unreleased photographs, there is no information in this book that cannot be obtained from the liner notes of the original Modern Lovers album, the Precise Modern Lovers Order/Live At The Longbranch Saloon live album, or the Original Modern Lovers bootleg.
An informative, unauthorized, rock music biography........2000-05-04
Exclusive interviews with Richman's band Modern lovers, ex-members of the Velvet Underground and others who knew him well contribute to a well-rounded unauthorized biography which examines the works and legacy of the rock musician. Recommended reading for fans of the artist who want to know more.
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- An admiring, eminently readable portrait of a great man
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Dreamer in the Desert: A Profile of Nelson Glueck
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An admiring, eminently readable portrait of a great man.......2006-05-26
Ellen Norman Stern's biography of archaeologist, college president, intelligence asset, and ordained rabbi Nelson Glueck is an edifying and substantive account of the highlights of Dr. Glueck's multifaceted career and achievements: delineation of the history of the Transjordan and Negev deserts, fusion of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati with the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, establishment of a Jerusalem-based school of biblical archaeology now named after him, and deliverer of the benediction at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration in January 1961. For a fuller, more professionally detailed account of Dr. Glueck's archaeological explorations, the reader should also peruse the just-published volume entitled Nelson Glueck: Biblical Archaeologist and President of the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion by Jonathan M. Brown and Laurence Kutler.
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