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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgement | |
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| Power and the Context of School Administration | |
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| Power and Politics | |
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| JFK, Stalin, Churchill, and Iacocca--Who Would Make It as a School Administrator? | |
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| Ideas about Power: The Big "P" or Who Has It and Who Doesn't | |
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| Power Plays, Politics, and Politicians | |
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| The Zero Sum Game as Organizational Poker Playing | |
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| Building Coalitions: The Chess Game | |
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| Is School Administration for You? | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Power and Politics | |
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| Are You Ready to Play the Game? | |
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| The Game, the Players, the Stakes, and the Rules | |
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| The Nature of School Administration | |
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| Winning, Losing, Winners, and Losers | |
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| Jocks, Jive, and Jokers | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Playing the Game | |
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| Bureaucracies, Babus, and Baksheesh | |
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| Vacuums, Inertia, and Administrivia | |
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| Competency and Potency | |
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| Rocking in the Boat vs Rocking the Boat | |
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| Beating the System vs Being Beaten by the System | |
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| Blunders and Business Acumen | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Bureaucracies, Babus, and Baksheesh | |
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| Connections | |
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| The Community | |
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| The "Community" Is a Mirage | |
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| Tapping the Power Bases of the Communities | |
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| Spotting the People in Power--The Informal Network | |
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| Using the Power Bases of a Community | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about the Community | |
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| The PTA | |
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| What the PTA Is Not: Teachers and Men | |
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| Gossip, "Gotchas," and Gripe Sessions | |
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| Payoffs, Potholes, and Parsimony | |
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| Virulence at the Secondary School | |
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| And Virulence at the Elementary School | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about PTA's | |
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| The Staff | |
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| The Staff vs the Faculty | |
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| The Faculty: Superstars, Superchargers, Turkeys, Stool Pigeons, and Wimps | |
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| Morale and Networking | |
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| Pedagogues, Poker Games, and Privies: Faculty Room Dynamics | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about the Staff | |
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| The Media | |
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| The Truth Never Gets in the Way of a Good Story | |
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| Stroking the Press | |
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| Developing a Media "Presence" That Sells | |
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| Turning Bad News into Good News: Being Your Own Press Agent | |
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| Two Sources of Information about the Schools You Should Know | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about the Media | |
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| Students | |
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| The Pawns and the Powerful | |
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| A Student-Centered Value System | |
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| Students as a Power Group | |
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| Students as Problems to Students as Solutions | |
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| Pots, Pot, and Pets | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Students | |
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| The Career Ladder | |
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| Career Planning--The Legend of the "Chairs" | |
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| The Legend and the Fraternity | |
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| The Play Is the Thing--The Difference Between Scenery and the Players | |
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| Getting the Position You Want: Two Strategies | |
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| The Right People--Who Are They? | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Career Planning | |
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| Resumes, Headhunters, and Interviewing | |
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| The Resume as Doublespeak | |
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| On Bogus Degrees: Avoiding Dipscam | |
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| Headhunters, Cannibals, and the OBN | |
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| Interviewing Your Interviewers | |
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| Leads: Dead Ends, Deadbeats, Detours, and Dividends | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Resumes, Headhunters, and Interviewing | |
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| Academics and Abecedarians | |
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| The Ph.D. and Ed.D. or Initials Are Everything | |
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| The Alphabet Jungle: Reading the Letterhead | |
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| Picking the Right Place to Get Placed | |
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| Professors as Partners | |
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| Life in College Classrooms | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Acedemics and Abecedarians | |
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| Getting the Job Done Right | |
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| The Job vs the Job Description | |
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| What Makes Up a Job? | |
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| Data, People, and Things | |
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| Control vs Controls Over the Job | |
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| Retrofitting the Job Description to the Job | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about the Job vs the Job Description | |
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| Ploys to Avoid | |
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| Givers, Takers, and Flimflam Artists | |
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| Memo Wars and Turf Battles | |
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| Forcing Democracy on Dopes | |
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| Your Title and You, When to Take It Seriously | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Ploys to Avoid | |
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| Hiring, Shifting, and Firing | |
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| Where Loyalties Begin and End: Have Gun Will Travel | |
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| The Proper Attitude | |
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| The Subtleties of Staffing | |
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| Hiring Good People or Hiring People Who Hire Good People | |
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| Con Games in Letters of Reference | |
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| Shifting Personnel: Keep Your Eyes on the Pea! | |
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| Who Must Be Fired and Making It Stick | |
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| Theory X and Theory Y | |
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| Taking Your Lumps, the Dirty Work Is Part of the Job | |
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| The Only Thing That Lasts | |
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| Retrospective | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Hiring, Shifting, and Firing | |
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| The Emmetropia of Evaluation | |
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| Growth vs Performance | |
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| The Search for the One "Perfect" System | |
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| Hard vs Soft Data | |
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| Flattery Will Lose You a Grievance | |
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| Facts Only Count for So Much | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Evaluation | |
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| Budget Skullduggery | |
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| Budget Control and Hieroglyphics | |
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| What Is a Budget? | |
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| All Budgets Are Padded | |
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| How Not to Be Caught with Your Padding Down | |
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| The Telltale Evidence: The Sawdust on the Floor | |
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| Controlling Costs | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Budget Skullduggery | |
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| Textbook Tyranny, Curriculum Chicanery, and Testing Insanity | |
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| The Educational Mugwumps | |
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| Putting It Together in the Schools | |
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| Testing Insanity | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Textbook Tyranny, Curriculum Chicanery, and Testing Insanity | |
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| Adversaries and Friends | |
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| Secretaries and Custodians | |
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| The "Shadow" Administrators: Secretaries Behind the Throne | |
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| Secretaries as Mediators and Power Brokers | |
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| Secretarial Sign Language Everybody Knows | |
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| The Real Basics Are Always Custodial | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Secretaries and Custodians | |
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| Unions | |
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| The Avon Lady Is Calling: Cosmetic vs Custodial Roles | |
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| Union Tectics and Victims | |
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| Living, Loving, and Laughing with Unions | |
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| Grievances and Arbitration | |
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| The Godfather: Understanding Union Leaders | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Unions | |
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| The Lunatic Fringe | |
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| Prudes, Censors, Wackos, and Birchers | |
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| The Last Crusade: The Religious Fanatics | |
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| The Assassins--When the Bullets Are Real | |
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| The Power of Humor | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about the Lunatic Fringe | |
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| Arch Rivals and Competitors | |
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| Et tu Brutus? Knowing Who Wants Your Job | |
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| Plots, Plotters, and Psychopaths | |
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| Case Study: Stanley Friend's First Failure | |
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| Motivation for Advancement | |
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| Assistants | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Arch Rivals and Competitors | |
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| Surviving | |
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| Knowing Who Is the Boss | |
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| You Don't Work for Everyone: How to Tell Who Is the Boss | |
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| Case Study: Todd Laker Knocks 'em Dead but Is Knocked Out | |
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| All the President's Men: Are They Men? | |
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| Does Your Boss Want Your Competence or Your Strokes? | |
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| Who Is Your Boss's Boss and Who Cares? | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Knowing Who Is the Boss | |
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| Staying in Power and Staying Power | |
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| Real Lessons from the Real World | |
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| How to Survive Losing to The Turk: Getting Fired | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Staying in Power and Staying Power | |
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| Idealism vs Ideology | |
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| Machiavelli and Don Quixote: The Odd Couple | |
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| Is It Crass to Care? | |
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| Dreams vs Pipe Dreams | |
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| Guidelines for Success | |
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| Your Own Guidelines | |
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| Caveats, Codicils, and Conundrums about Leaders and Leadership | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| Biographies | |
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| To Our Readers | |