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GRISHAM AND CLANCY

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Happy endings

By Butch Dalisay | July 15, 2002 - 12:00am

I didn’t mean to leave my graduate fiction class so glum and depressed on a rainy Friday night a couple of weeks ago, but I ended that meeting with what turned out to be the controversial proposition that most...

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