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Alexander Confronts the Gordian Knot

Passenger: There’s something wrong at the UN so I have to go in and fix it.

–F train, Carroll St

Overheard by: confused grad student

  • Posted on August 7, 2006
  • Always Bringing it Back to You!, Intelligentsia, National Security, On the Subway
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