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John P. Broderick University Professor of English and
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ACADEMIC RESUME (EDITED)
January, 2004
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- Academic Training
- Academic Positions Held
- Teaching Experience
- Teaching Awards and Nominations
- Administrative Experience
- Books, Directory, Grant Reports
- Articles and Reviews
- Papers
- Research Grants and Awards
- Service and Consulting
- Languages, Foreign Travel, References
Academic Training
Ph.D. in Linguistics: Georgetown University, Washington, DC, February, 1972. (Title of doctoral dissertation: Usage Varieties and Writing Competence: A Study of Formal and Informal Written English Elicited from Selected Groups of American College Freshmen).
Front Matter and Introduction | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Appendix and Bibliography
M.S. in Linguistics: Georgetown University, Washington, DC, June, 1968. (Title of master's thesis: Some Observations on the Meaning and Use of the Term "Category" in Twentieth Century Linguistics ).
M.A. in Theology: LaSalle College, Philadelphia, PA, June, 1963.
B.A. in French-Education: LaSalle College, Philadelphia, PA, June, 1962.
Academic Positions Held
Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, VA : August, 1975 to present:
University Professor of English and Applied
Linguistics (August, 1998 to present)
Acting Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs (July, 2001 to July, 2002)
Professor of English and Applied Linguistics
(July, 1984 to July, 1998)
Coordinator, Teaching Emphasis (May, 1998 to
present):
Director of Graduate Studies in English (June,
1994 to May, 1997)
Coordinator, Linguistics/TESOL (August, 1992 to
May, 1994)
Director, Office of International Programs
(July, 1990 to July, 1991)
Interim Director, Office of International
Programs (July, 1987 to June 1990)
Acting Dean, School of Arts &Letters
(Summers, 1983 and 1984 and January to March, 1985)
Associate Dean, School of Arts &Letters
(July, 1982 to July, 1985)
Assistant Dean, School of Arts &Letters
(February, 1982 to June, 1982)
Associate Professor of English (August, 1975 to
June, 1984)
Tenure awarded: December, 1978
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL:
September, 1973 to June, 1975:
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, Blacksburg, VA: September, 1968 to August, 1973:
Assistant Professor of English (September, 1971
to August, 1973)
Instructor in English (September, 1968 to
August, 1971)
Georgetown University, Washington, DC:
Summers, 1968 and 1969 and August, 1966 to July, 1967:
Visiting Instructor of English as a Foreign
Language, School of Languages and Linguistics (Summers, 1968 and 1969)
Testing Assistant, American Language Institute
(August, 1966 to July, 1967)
Central Catholic High School, Pittsburgh,
PA: September, 1963 to June, 1966:
Teacher of Spanish and Religion
Teaching Experience
Old Dominion University:
Currently teach the following courses:
ENGL 350: Aspects of the English Language
ENGL 370: English Linguistics
ENGL 440/540: General Linguistics
ENGL 444/544: History of the English Language
ENGL 450/550: American English
ENGL 672: Syntax
ENGL 673: Discourse Analysis
In addition, have previously taught graduate courses in first and second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, linguistic field methods, applied linguistics, historical linguistics, ESL methodology, and language and literature revisited and undergraduate courses in advanced (functional) grammar, transformational grammar, language in society, and English composition. By choice, continued teaching regularly during years in administration. Have consistently ranked in top 5% on student evaluations. (Designated University Professor -- a title honoring outstanding teaching -- at ODU, August, 1998 and August 2002 (four year terms of appointment); ODU nominee for 1998 Carnegie Foundation CASE Professor of the Year Award; in spring of 1997 was selected by the top graduate in ODU's College of Engineering and Technology for the Most Inspiring Faculty Award; ODU nominee for 1998 and 1993 State Council of Higher Education in Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award.)
University of South Florida:
Taught graduate courses in linguistic stylistics (including a doctoral seminar), linguistic field methods, sociolinguistics, and introduction to graduate study in linguistics; taught undergraduate courses in the structure of American English and language and meaning.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University:
Taught a graduate course in advanced English linguistics and undergraduate courses in modern English linguistics, growth and structure of the English language, English composition, and English as a second language.
Teaching Awards and Nominations
Designated University Professor -- a title honoring outstanding teaching -- at Old Dominion University in August 1998 and August 2002 (four year terms of appointment)
ODU finalist and nominee for 1999 State Council of Higher Education in Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award
ODU nominee for 1998 Carnegie Foundation CASE Professor of the Year Award
In spring of 1997 was selected by Nizar Yahya Habash, the top graduate in ODU's College of Engineering and Technology, for the Most Inspiring Faculty Award
ODU finalist and nominee for 1993 State Council of Higher Education in Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award
Administrative Experience
Acting Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Old Dominion University (July, 2001 to July 2002): Primary administrative responsibility for completing Old Dominion’s Reaffirmation of Accreditation Self-Study and for arranging for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools / Commission on Colleges -- SACS/COC -- to send a visiting committee to campus in February, 2002. Also other administrative responsibilities such as the following: (a) New Faculty Orientation, (b) campus nomination and application process for the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) Outstanding Faculty Awards Program (c) Faculty Development Awards Program, (d) Representation of Academic Affairs on the International Programs Council, Faculty Senate Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, and Faculty Senate Faculty Committee.
Chair, Steering Committee, Old Dominion University Reaffirmation of Accredition 2002 by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools / Council of Colleges -- SACS/COC (Fall, 1999 to Fall, 2002): In addition to (a) chairing meetings of the steering committee, also (b) coordinate the work of sixteen sub-committees charged with reviewing all aspects of university operations and producing individual committee reports, and (c) oversee the task of synthesizing those reports into a unified document that will guide the visit of the SACS/COC committee in the spring of 2002 and the followup to their report in the summer and fall of 2002.
Coordinator, Teaching Emphasis, Department of English, Old Dominion University (May, 1998 to present): Advise all graduate students in the Teaching Emphasis of the M.A. in English, Advise Undergraduate Students in the Secondary Education / English Emphasis of the English major. Serve on the Coordinators and Directors Committee and represent the English Department on college and university committees related to teacher education.
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, Old Dominion University (June, 1994 to May, 1997): Directed recruiting, admissions processing, advising, oral comprehensive examination scheduling, and graduation certification of more than 400 students in two M.A. programs: English and Applied Linguistics. Served on related committees at departmental, college, and university levels. Created a database file with more than 20 interactive data fields and 5 report formats, and edited The Graduate Newsletter.
Coordinator, Linguistics / TESOL, English Department, Old Dominion University (August, 1992 to May, 1994): Advised all graduate students in MA program in Applied Linguistics. Coordinated scheduling of both graduate and undergraduate linguistics courses.
Director, Office of International Programs, Old Dominion University (July, 1987 to June, 1991): Coordinated all university linkage agreements. Supported faculty in international teaching and research initiatives. Administered study abroad programs and student exchange programs. Served as project director for Fulbright / Hays Group Project Abroad in Morocco, for third year of a USIA-funded linkage with Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, and for second year of a USDE-funded non-Western studies faculty-development grant.
Acting Dean, School of Arts and Letters, Old Dominion University (Summers, 1983 and 1984 and January to March, 1985): Was responsible for departments of Art, English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Music, Philosophy, Political Science and Geography, Sociology and Criminal Justice, Speech and Theater Arts, and Urban Studies and Public Administration, and for the following Institutes, Programs, and Centers: Humanities, Scottish Studies, Women's Studies, ODU Ballet, English Language Center, Center for Personal and Professional Development, and ODU Community Music Academy. Supervised school budget process. Member of Deans' Council, Central Administrative Council, and University Advancement Committee.
Associate Dean, School of Arts and Letters, Old Dominion University (January, 1982 to June, 1985): Exercised primary administrative responsibility for student-related matters. Advised the dean on policy and planning and on appointment, reappointment, tenure, and promotion decisions. Served as dean's office representative on Arts and Letters standing committees. Represented the school on university committees such as Articulation and Advising, Computer-assisted Advising and Degree Audit, Commencement, and Catalog. Chaired Presidential Appeals Board and Institutional Self-Study Committee on Foreign Languages. Served on University Task Force on Teacher Education.
Chair of the Freshman English Committee (1970-1973) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Directed the freshman English program: This included supervision of the curriculum, grading policies, advanced placement testing program, textbook selection, etc. Worked closely with the coordinator of graduate teaching assistants in arranging orientation and teacher-training programs.
Books, Directory, Grant Reports
(BOOKS)
The Able Writer: A Rhetoric and Handbook. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1982.
Instructor's Manual to Accompany THE ABLE WRITER: A RHETORIC AND HANDBOOK. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1982.
Modern English Linguistics: A Structural and Transformational Grammar . New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., Inc., 1975.
(DIRECTORY):
International Programs and Services at Virginia Colleges and Universities. Richmond, VA: State Council of Higher Education in Virginia, August 1990. (Co-edited with Dennis Ridley and Linda Fischer)
(GRANT REPORTS):
Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad: Language & Culture in Morocco: An Interdisciplinary Faculty Development Seminar. Norfolk, VA: ODU Research Foundation, 1990 [Submitted to the U.S. Department of Education; 86 pages].
Final Report on the Partnership between the College of Arts and Letters, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, U.S.A., and the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at Mohammed V University, Rabat, MOROCCO. Norfolk, VA: ODU Office of International Programs, 1990 [Submitted to the United States Information Agency; 19 pages].
Non-Western Studies in General Education: Final Performance Report. Norfolk: ODU Research Foundation, 1988. [81 pages: includes syllabi and other teaching materials developed during the two-year program].
Language and the Public Trust: Workshops on the Use and Misuse of Language in Government, the Media, and Education. Norfolk: ODU Research Foundation, 1977 [138 pages: includes edited copies of all papers delivered at the workshops].
(ARTICLES):
“Government Reform and Plain Language in English-Speaking and Spanish-Speaking Countries.” Journal of Global Awareness . Volume 2, no. 2 (Spring, 2001) pp. 96-108.
“Globalizing Teaching and Research at Old Dominion University: The Ten-Year Impact of a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad.” Proceedings of the 1999 Meeting of the Global Awareness Society International. Bloomsburg, PA: Global Awareness Society International. (Spring, 2000). pp. 68-77.
"Wallace Chafe's Light Subject Constraint in Conversational Discourse in the Immediate Mode of Consciousness." Word, Journal of the International Linguistic Association. August, 1999. pp. 143-154.
"The Hungarian Connection." Business and Economic Quarterly, Spring, 1992. p. 42. (with Wolfgang Pindur)
"A Systemically Based Approach to Teaching the College Grammar Course." In The Teaching of Grammar: Proceedings of the Second National Conference of the Association of Teachers of English Grammar. ATEG: 1991. pp. 66-79.
"A Checklist for Describing International Programs and Services at a University, College, or Community College." In International Programs and Services at Virginia Colleges and Universities. Richmond, VA: State Council of Higher Education in Virginia, August, 1990. pp. 205-208.
"Linguistic Perspectives on Formal Written English." in TEFL in Morocco: Bridging the Gap between Secondary and Tertiary Levels: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Moroccan Association of Teachers of English. Rabat: Moroccan Association of Teachers of English, 1987. pp. 44-54.
"Toward an Interactional Model of Usage Variation." The SECOL Review, Vol. VII, No. 1, pp. 4-14. (Spring, 1983)
"Linguistics and Composition: Some Recent Developments." Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 109-116. (Winter, 1979)
"Metaphors in Idioms: A Problem for Linguistic Theory." USF Language Quarterly 13:7-9, 12. 1975.
"Linguistic Research and Language Teaching." RELC Journal 5:12-17. 1974.
"A Handbook for Teaching Assistants." Freshman English News 1, no. 2:9. Texas Christian University. Fall,1972. (with Michael Squires)
"Toward a Technique for a More Exhaustive Evaluation of Urban Area Performance." Environment and Planning 4:43-58. University of Leeds. 1972. (with J. W. Dickey)
"Category: Meaning and Use in Modern Linguistics." Languages and Linguistics: A Student Review 3:133-157. Georgetown University. 1968.
"Language: A Key to Social Change." Languages and Linguistics: A Student Review 2:135-138. Georgetown University. 1967.
(REVIEWS):
Review of The Pronunciation of English: A Course Book in Phonology, by Charles W. Kreidler. The Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics. Vol. 1.3, pp. 379-386. (Summer, 1990).
Review of An Introduction to Functional Grammar , by M.A.K. Halliday. The SECOL Review, (Spring, 1988).
Review of Discourse Analysis: The Sociolinguistic Analysis of Natural Language, by Michael Stubbs. The SECOL Review , (Fall, 1986).
Selected Papers
"Discourse,
Consciousness, and Choice: A Comparison of Halliday's and Chafe's Views
on Information Flow in Spoken Discourse." (To the 8th International
Cognitive Linguistics Conference) Logro ño, Spain; July 21, 20003).
"The Fall-rise Tone as a Formal Marker of Accessible Information in Spoken
Discourse." (To the Georgetown University Roundtable on
Languages and Linguistics; Washington, DC; March 7, 2002).
"Discourse Intonation and Speaking English as a Second
Language." (To the 2001 Deseret Language and Linguistic Society
Symposium; Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; March 22, 2001).
“Use of the Web to Enhance the Self-Study.”
(To the Annual Convention of the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools, Commission on Colleges SACS/COC, Atlanta, GA, December 4, 2000).
“Toward a “Monosyntactic” (and Monosemic?) Analysis of –ing Forms in English.” (To the Sixty-third Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics -- SECOL LXIII, Birmingham, AL, November 11, 2000).
“Language, Consciousness, and the Next Millennium.” (Invited Paper: To the Annual Meeting of Eastern Virginia Regional Mensa. Virginia Beach, VA., November 4, 2000.)
“Language and Consciousness: Some
Insights from Research on Discourse Intonation.” Keynote
Address: Second Shenandoah Symposium on Language and Linguistics.
Southern Virginia College, Buena Vista, Virginia. March 16, 2000.
“Reinventing
Government: The Role of Plain Language.” Fourth International
Meeting of the Center for Latin American Development (CLAD IV). Mexico City,
Mexico. October 20, 1999. [Spanish language version, which was read at the
conference: "Reestructuración Gubernamental:
El Rol del Lenguaje Claro." ]
“Globalizing Teaching
and Research at Old Dominion University: The Ten-Year Impact of a
Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad.” Global Awareness Society
International. New Orleans, LA. May 28-30, 1999.
"The
Cognitive Status of Grammatical Subjects in Written English." (To the
43rd Annual Conference of the International Linguistics Association, New York,
NY, April 17, 1998)
"Wallace
Chafe's Light Subject Constraint in Conversational Discourse in the Immediate
Mode of Consciousness." (To the 41st Annual Conference of the
International Linguistics Association, New York, NY, April 12, 1996)
"Given, Accessible, and New Information: A Comparison of Wallace Chafe's Approach to Analyzing Discourse Intonation with that of Brazil, Coulthard, and Johns." (To the 40th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, Washington, D.C., March 11, 1995.)
"Function versus Form in Grammar: Toward Explicitness and Consistency." (To the Forty-eighth Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics -- SECOL XLVIII, Auburn, AL, April 2, 1993.)
"A Systemically Based Approach to Teaching the College Grammar Course." (To the Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers of English Grammar, Williamsport, PA, July, 1991.)
"Current Issues in Systemic Linguistics." (To the Thirty-seventh Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics--SECOL XXXVII, Atlanta, GA, November 7,1987.)
"Newtonian Grammar" (To Moroccan Association of Teachers of English, Safi, Morocco, March 22-25, 1986)
"Systemic Delicacy and Automatic Language Processing." (To the Linguistics Section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 1, 1985)
"Edited English as Product and Process." (To the Linguistics Section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 12, 1982.)
"Discourse Intonation in Conversational, Narrative, and Textual Interaction." (To the Summer Meeting of the American Dialect Society, College Park, MD, August 1,1982.)
"Toward an Interactional Model of Usage Variation." (To SECOL XXVI, Gainesville, FL, March, 1982.)
"Casual, Careful, and Formal Styles of English: An Empirical Study." (To the Linguistics Section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 10,1978.)
"Coherence and Discourse Structure: Some Recent Developments in Linguistics and Their Relevance to the Teaching of Composition." (To the Southeastern Conference on English in the Two-Year College, Williamsburg, VA, February, 1977.)
"The Five Clocks of Martin Joos: Why They Keep on Ticking." (To the Southeastern Section of the American Dialect Society, Atlanta, GA, November, 1976.)
"Linguistics and Discourse: Four Research Traditions." (To SECOL XIV, Atlanta, GA, November,1975.)
"Usage Variation in Written Discourse." (To SECOL XII, Washington, DC, October, 1974.)
"Idioms as Resurrected Metaphors." (To SECOL X, Atlanta, GA, November, 1973.)
"The EFL Teacher as Linguistic Researcher." (To TESOL Convention, San Juan, PR, May, 1973.)
Selected Research Grants and Awards
Award of $2500 per year for professional expenses during each year of two four-year terms as University Professor at Old Dominion University (1998 -2002 and 2002-2006)
Research award of $500 from the Office of Academic Affairs, ODU, in recognition of ODU nomination for SCHEV Outstanding Teacher Award (for use during 1993-94 academic year).
Faculty Advisor to Ralph Rodriguez: $2200 National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar Grant: "Foregrounding in the Poetry of e.e. cummings," June and July, 1991.
Project Director for a Diplomat-in-Residence Grant to Old Dominion University from the U.S. Department of State, September, 1990 to May, 1991.
Project Director for a $40,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a Fulbright / Hays Group Project Abroad in Morocco, May 13-June 23, 1989.
Fulbright Seminar in West Germany for International Education Administrators, April 7- May 5,1988.
Project Director for a $56,737 faculty development grant from the U.S. Department of Education entitled "Non-Western Studies in General Education," July 1, 1987 - June 30,1988.
Project Director for the third year of a $50,000 grant from USIA to support linkage and exchange programs between ODU's College of Arts and Letters and the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco (July 1, 1985 - June 30, 1988).
Travel and maintenance award (c.$1,750 -- during first year of the USIA grant to ODU) to spend March, 1986, in Morocco lecturing at Mohammed V University in Rabat and presenting two papers and a workshop at the annual meeting of the Moroccan Association of Teachers of English in Safi.
Grant of $2,775 from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy to organize three workshops on Language and the Public Trust, September, 1976.
NDEA Title IV doctoral fellowship at Georgetown University, 1967-1968.
NDEA Overseas Institute for Secondary School Teachers of Spanish sponsored by the University of New Mexico during the summer of 1965 in Quito, Ecuador.
NDEA Institute for Secondary School Teachers of Spanish at the University of Pittsburgh during the summer of 1964.
Selected Service and Consulting
(UNIVERSITY SERVICE)
Old Dominion University:
Other than while in administration, for which
see earlier entries, have served as a member of the University Senate and
Faculty Senate; chair, Senate Research Committee; Alternate University Marshal
and member of University Commencement Committee (fifteen years), member,
University Tenure and Promotion Committee, chair International Programs Sub-committee
that proposed ODU's English Language Center; chair, Art Department Program
Review Committee; member, School of Arts and Letters Advisory Council;
chair, College of Arts and Letters Promotion and Tenure Committee (twice);
elected chair, English Department Faculty Council (twice); and chair or member
of many other university, college, and departmental committees.
University of South Florida:
Served as an elected member of Arts &
Letters College Council and chair, Departmental Committee on Salary, Tenure,
and Promotion.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University:
Served as chair of the Freshman English
Committee, and member of the Departmental Curriculum Committee. Devised
English language placement tests for foreign graduate students.
(PROFESSIONAL SERVICE)
Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Global Awareness. Official journal of the Global Awareness Society International, Inc.
Vice-Chair, SCHEV (State Council of Higher Education in Virginia) Working Committee on International Studies, August, 1989 to August, 1990.
Manuscript Referee, South Atlantic Bulletin (Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Fall, 1983.
Principal Organizer of the Old Dominion University Symposium on the Language of Literature and SECOL XX, Norfolk, VA, April, 1979.
President of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, 1977-1978 (Vice President, 1976-1977).
(CONSULTING)
Winter, 1996: Reviewed a research proposal submitted to Department of Higher Education of the government of Sweden..
Reviews of whole or partial book manuscripts:
Thirty-four reviews since 1973, for Harper &
Row, Publishers, Inc.; McGraw Hill; Broadview Press; John Wiley and Sons, Inc.;
Thomas Y. Crowell Co., Inc.; University of Alabama Press; Winthrop Publishers, Inc.;
and Rodopi Publishers.
United States Office of Personnel Management: Since 1977, taught eight workshops on basic grammar and writing.
Conducted a six-week Executive Writing Seminar for senior staff officers of the Commander, Naval Surface Force, Atlantic, during January and February, 1981.
(COMMUNITY SERVICE)
Member, Commonwealth of Virginia Advisory Committee for the Education of the Gifted, November, 1988 to June, 1990.
Chair, Community Advisory Committee for the Gifted Program, Virginia Beach City Public Schools, June,1986 to September 1988; member to June 1990.
Organizer and chief judge for the Essay Contest held in conjunction with the Sixth Annual Meeting of the former U.S. Secretaries of State, Norfolk, VA, December, 1987.
Chair, steering committee, Town Meeting on the Future of Norfolk, jointly sponsored by the City of Norfolk Tricentennial Commission; the School of Arts and Letters, ODU; and the Norfolk Branch of AAUW, November 13, 1982.
Languages, Foreign Travel, and References
(LANGUAGES)
Spanish: very good; French: good; structural knowledge of Ivatan, Finnish, Persian, Hungarian, Berber, Arabic, Wolof, Vietnamese and Portuguese
(FOREIGN TRAVEL)
Morocco, Ecuador, Germany, France, Spain, Hungary, Mexico, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, Canada, Austria, Slovakia, and Luxembourg
(REFERENCES)
Roseann Runte, President, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529 (757-683-3159) e-mail: rrunte@odu.edu
Jeffrey H. Richards, Professor and Former Chair, Department of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529 (757-683- 3991) e-mail: jhrichar@odu.edu
Donald J. Zeigler, Professor and former Chair, Department of Political Science and Geography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529 (804-683-3845) e-mail: dzeigler@odu.edu
John Holley, Associate Professor Emeritus and Former Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Old Dominion University (Home Phone: 757-423-2474)
Dallin D. Oaks, Associate Professor of
English, 3146 JKHB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 (801-378-6369)
e-mail: dallin_oaks@byu.edu
This page was last updated on July 12, 2004
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