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		<title>Dept. of (my) History: The Last Lecture</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don't usually write in memoir, but my dad's retirement, at the age of 88, made me think about how the generations look differently at the concept. Here, then, is a conversation full of questions and received wisdom ... ]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Dept. of (my) History. Part I</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In September 1999,  ESPN Magazine sent me to Littleton, Colorado, to chronicle the aftermath of what was then the worst high school shooting in American history. For a glimpse at how little has changed in the last 25 years, here's a look back at what I wrote about Columbine High School soon after the massacre.]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2020 03:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 1982, I wrote a story about AIDS that mentioned 958 cases had been reported worldwide. Forty years on, the total is 75 million. I'm reposting the piece as a document of what it was like to be in NYC at the dawn of the crisis. ]]></description>
		
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