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Russell Smith is the author of the novels How Insensitive and Noise; Young Men, a story collection; and the illustrated fable The Princess and the Whiskheads. He writes a weekly column for the Toronto Globe and Mail, in which a different version of the article in this issue appeared. (May 2003)
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