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July 26, 2004

Miss Massachusetts is from MIT (Course 5, class of 2004). How can that be? Isn’t that one of the biblical signs of the apocalypse? I am not kidding: Here it is, right from the ‘Tute itself: Beauty and the Geek: When Stereotypes Collide

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