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December 3, 2003

In a Nov. 19 article about a reading at MIT by novelist Russell Banks, one of the event's sponsors was omitted. It is sponsored by the Angus MacDonald Fund and the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on December 3, 2003.

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