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Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:00 AM

The battle of the literary endorsements

Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison have both gone public with their presidential picks. What do their overwrought odes tell us about the candidates they favor?
By Laura Miller

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  • Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:39 AM

    "The fug of complacency"

    Laura Miller's typo is as inadvertently brilliant as Maya Angleou's (in)famous "dried tokens of their passing."

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