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I had a PhD in literature and rhetoric, and I was teaching at the University of Virginia, when the Governor, Chuck Robb, plucked me from academic obscurity to write speeches for him. Four death-row inmates had escaped from Mecklenberg State Prison and were wandering around loose in the Virginia countryside alarming everyone. MORE
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