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SUMMER 2001 News & Announcements

PRESIDENT Mr. A. Graham Down SPEAKING OF SHAKESPEARE

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Mr. Frederic W. Schwartz, Jr. WITH ACTOR MICHAEL YORK TREASURER Mr. C. Braxton Moncure One of Britain’s most recognizable exports, Michael York is best known to American audiences for

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR the scores of film and television productions that have made him famous on both sides of the Dr. John F. Andrews, OBE Atlantic. His movie credits include the leading role in ’s Oscar-winning , as well

VICE-PRESIDENTS as key parts in Accident, Something for Everyone, , Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt Conduct Unbecoming, Logan’s Run, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Fedora, Mrs. William L. Ritchie and A Knight in . He played Basil Exposition in two Austin Dr. Marjorie J. Williams Powers farces, and Stone Alexander in The Omega Code. Meanwhile

DIRECTORS he appears regularly on TV, with The Forsyte Saga, Space, and Fall Mrs. Gwendolyn Alexander from Grace among the programs his admirers recall most fondly. Mrs. Louise Armstrong Mr. William Fitzgerald III But of course Mr. York is also highly familiar to theater-lovers, with Mrs. Joan Healey Broadway triumphs that include the premiere of Outcry, by Tennes- Captain Macauley Howard see Williams, and the National Actors Theatre revivals of The Cruci- Mr. Ian McDonald Ms. Susan Merritt ble and Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me.

Mr. Phillip H. Miller Mr. York was a founding member of Britain’s National Youth Ms. Gillian B. Quinby Mr. William Renfro Theatre, and during his years at Oxford he enacted one of the title FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2001 Mr. F. Mark Wyatt roles in a Romeo and Juliet that toured Israel. A few years later he Program 6:30-7:30 ADVISORY BOARD played Tybalt in ’s lyrical film of that tragedy, an Buffet Reception 7:30-8:30 Mr. Eric W. Beshers experience that resulted from Mr. York’s 1966 screen debut in Hon. Robert A. Brand Zeffirelli’s Taming of the Shrew, a romp that caught Richard Burton THE WASHINGTON CLUB Hon. Clement E. Conger 15 Dupont Circle NW Hon. Rockwood H. Foster and Elizabeth Taylor at the height of their tempestuous romance. ESU Members and Guests $40 Hon. Phillip L. Gore In addition to the work for which he is usually recognized, Mr. York is Mr. Gilbert M. Grosvenor Non-Members $45 Dr. Richard H. Howland, OBE an educator (serving as Chairman of the California Youth Theatre) Mrs. Alexander C. Liggett and a prolific narrator, with more than sixty audiotapes, among them Mrs. Jane P. Plakias a Treasure Island that was nominated for the Grammy Award and a Fencing Master that earned him Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg an Audie. He is also the author of two captivating volumes, Accidentally on Purpose, an autobiography, OFFICE ADDRESS and A Shakespearean Actor Prepares. Through special arrangements with BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC, 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW both titles will be available for purchase and for inscription by the gifted artist who wrote them. Washington, D.C. 20036

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of The Shakespeare Theatre. During one of the most amusing moments of his discussion with the Guild’s President, John Local News Andrews, Mr. Sabin noted that it was he who had provided George Burns with one of his most quoted remarks, an obser- A LOVELY GARDEN RECEPTION IN vation that had actually come from Broadway legend Alfred Lunt: “The secret of successful acting is sincerity; once you’ve APRIL AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY learned to fake that, you’ve got it made.”

For many ESU stalwarts, the most memorable event on any A few weeks later, on May 8, we enjoyed a vicarious journey to year’s calendar has always been the party that takes place in the the Emerald Isle. Our guide was Dr. Christina Hunt Mahony, spring at the British Embassy. It’s a delight to report that 2001 Associate Director of the Center for Irish Studies at the Catho- proved true to form, because on April 19 His Excellency Sir lic University of America. Our venue, appropriately, was the Christopher Meyer and Lady Meyer hosted a sprightly reception Irish Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue, where we savored a in the Ambassador’s residence on Massachusetts Avenue. delicious assortment of wines and hors d’oeuvres that had been prepared by a new catering service under the aegis of our Nearly 300 members of the English-Speaking Union and their former Executive Director, Diana Nicholson, and her husband guests were on hand for this charming affair. Thanks to support Peter. Dr. Mahony, who had received the ESU’s 2000 Helene from such generous underwriters as Grosvenor International Gladstone Williams Scholarship to support her research in Ltd., represented by Mr. John Flavin, and ESU sponsor Mr. Dublin, spoke about autobiography as a genre with particular William F. Huneke, not to mention the helpful assistance our appeal to contemporary Irish writers. branch derives from more than a score of loyal Patrons and Benefactors, we netted more than $9,000 in funds that can be On May 22 the ESU joined forces with the RSA (acronym for applied to a broad range of cultural and educational endeavors. the Royal Society of Arts, a British organization that was founded in the mid-18th cen- This was a point that was fervently emphasized by our current tury as the Royal Society for President, A. Graham Down. In response to the Ambassador’s the Encouragement of Arts, witty greetings to a cheerful gathering, Mr. Down recognized Manufactures, and Com- several recent recipients of the ESU’s beneficence. He singled merce), the British Council, out actor Cameron McElyea of The Shakespeare Theatre, who’d and The Shakespeare Guild, been awarded a $2,500 ESU Acting Fellowship (made possible for WORLDSPEAK: A Forum by a generous donation from Mr. Walter L. Wright), literary on the Globalization of the historian Nikolai Slywka, who’d been selected for a $5,000 English Language. Through Helene Gladstone Williams Scholarship to attend the Univer- the magnanimity of Blooms- sity of Cambridge and further his studies on Edmund Burke and bury Publishing, whose Chief the Romantic poets, and Janet L. Rodkey, who’d won a $4,000 Executive, Nigel Newton, was Shakespeare Teacher Award that will enable her to spend here for the festivities, every- several weeks at the Globe this summer in London. one who came to The Washington Club for this stimulating dialogue received a complimentary copy of Encarta World A RICH ARRAY OF ATTRACTIONS FOR A English Dictionary, history’s first lexicon to convey our lan- guage in all of its multicultural diversity. BUSY SPRING IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL Organized by Penny Egan, Executive Director of the RSA in In the last few weeks the English-Speaking Union has offered its London, and Lynn Broadbent, who coordinates the work of constituents and friends a chance to meet – and engage in fasci- the RSA in the United States, WORLDSPEAK brought us an nating conversations with – some extraordinary personalities. internationally renowned television interviewer, Sir David Frost, as moderator, and it featured such superb panelists as On March 29, for example, we gathered at The Washington Kathy Rooney and Anne H. Soukhanov (Encarta editors for Club for our annual Evelyn Wrench Lecture, an event that the U.K. and the U.S., respectively) and popular London bears the name of a visionary British statesman who founded the broadcaster Sandy Chalmers. Fittingly, the first question from English-Speaking Union in 1918. This year’s speaker was Profes- the floor came from Vinton G. Cerf, “Father of the Internet.” sor Stuart Sillars of the University of Bergen in Norway. He The following day, a number of ESU attendees were also at a edified an appreciative audience with a lively and informative noon symposium at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture presentation on “The Novel and Its Illustrators.” Garden, co-sponsored by the RSA and the Smithsonian Associ- On April 9 we returned to The Washington Club for another ates. In this setting Sir David Frost explored timely issues with installment of SPEAKING OF SHAKESPEARE, a series the ESU has computer guru Tim Berners-Lee, “Inventor of the World been co-hosting with The Shakespeare Guild since September of Wide Web,” and Georgetown sociolinguist Deborah Tannen, 1998. Our guest for this chat was actor David Sabin, a mainstay author of such titles as You Just Don’t Understand.

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Our final gathering of the spring season took place at The Wash- atlases to each of the students, and to Mrs. Alexander C. ington Club on June 8 when J. Kenneth McDonald, who had Liggett, a former President of our branch, who underwrote the served for a decade and a half as Chief Historian of the Central stipends for our four Washington-area winners. Intelligence Agency, assessed the security implications of “The We’re also indebted to Ms. Gwendolyn M. Alexander, a Pearl Harbor Syndrome.” One of the highlights of this provoca- respected educator and a member of our Board of Directors, tive evening, which owed its success to the endeavors of Dr. for presiding over the session on March 1, to Ambassador Patricia Stockton Plaskett of our Program Committee, was a E. R. Braithwaite, author of the unforgettable memoir To Sir touching introduction by Commodore Nicholas Harris, Naval With Love, for sharing some personal insights about Shake- Attaché at the British Embassy. speare’s language with the audience on March 5, and to the six judges who implemented this season’s selection process: actors ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL AND INSPIRING Emery Battis and Edward Gero of The Shakespeare Theatre, SHAKESPEARE COMPETITION administrator Dawn McAndrews (Director of Education at the same remarkable institution), and teachers Celia Josephs One of the English-Speaking Union’s most popular activities is (Executive Director of the American Friends of Sadlers Wells), its annual Shakespeare Competition. This year more than forty Lee Viccellio (a retired instructor who was our branch’s first schools – public, private, and parochial – from nearby counties recipient of the annual Shakespeare Teacher Award), and Sally in Maryland and Virginia as well as from the District of Colum- Anne Walsh (former English Coordinator for the Montgomery bia, placed students in the March 1 preliminary round, which County Schools in Maryland). occurred at the Charles Sumner School on 17th Street NW. Each participant in the Competition recited a Shakespearean THE ESU MOVES INTO ITS NEW HOME sonnet and delivered a dramatic vignette from one of the play- wright’s works. Then, as in the past, a panel of distinguished AT 1526 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE judges faced the arduous task of picking the 10-12 contestants Over the Memorial Day weekend the Washington offices of who would return for the March 5 finals, which took place (for the English-Speaking Union began sharing a historic building the first time in the local program’s twelve years) on the beautiful with two other not-for-profit organizations, the L’Enfant Trust Lansburgh stage of The Shakespeare Theatre. and the Woman’s National Democratic Club, in an elegant After all was said and done, four dedicated students garnered late-Victorian edifice near Dupont Circle. monetary prizes for their efforts: Carli Fitzgerald of Colonel Zadock Magruder High School ($400), Noelle Wilson of Whea- ton High School ($300), Bronwen Grebe of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School ($200), and Katherine Earnest of Madeira School ($100). Miss Fitzgerald went on to represent our region at the National Shakespeare Competition on April 23 in the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center.

In that prestigious venue, which attracted nearly 60 candidates from ESU strongholds around the nation, top honors went to

Katey Parker, from the Central Florida branch, with Jonathan

Meza of San Diego and Daniel Kennedy of Tucson as the first and second runners-up.

At the request of Alice Boyne, Executive Director of the English

-Speaking Union of the United States, John Andrews, who had recently taken over as Executive Director of the Washington Our new address, at the corner of New Hampshire Avenue and area’s ESU operations, attended the proceedings in New York Q Street NW, has returned us to one of the city’s most wel- and entertained the students and their parents at the banquet coming neighborhoods. We’re now in the process of devising which concluded a lively weekend. collaborative relationships with our associates in this stately For everything they did to make this year’s local Shakespeare antique-adorned structure, and over the months ahead we’ll Competition possible, the ESU is pleased to acknowledge the announce a number of fringe benefits for those in our midst kind philanthropy of the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foun- who appreciate the amenities a vibrant atmosphere can pro- dation (with particular gratitude to its President, Mr. Calvin vide. We’re also optimistic that the initiatives which take root Cafritz, and its Executive Director, Ms. Anne Allen), which pro- under ESU auspices in the years ahead will become increas- vided a $20,000 grant in support of the undertaking, of the Na- ingly appealing, not only to our present members but to those tional Geographic Society (with a special tribute to its Chairman, who’ll be drawn into our orbit as a result of all the opportuni- Mr. Gilbert M. Grosvenor), which donated handsome world ties these congenial facilities will be opening up to us.

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INDIANAPOLIS TO HOST THE ESU’S National News ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN NOVEMBER

THE ESU’S NATIONAL OFFICE The 2001 Annual Conference for ESU members from around the country will take place in Indianapolis, the state capital SHIFTS INTO TEMPORARY QUARTERS that refers to itself as “The Crossroads of America.” This year’s convention will commence on Thursday, November 8, and Following the lucrative sale of a building it long owned at 16 conclude on Sunday, November 11, and it will be held at the East 69th Street in New York’s exclusive Upper East Side — a Radisson Hotel City Center. For more details, please call the transaction that netted more than ten million dollars, much of it ESU office in New York at (917) 777-0460. earmarked for endowment purposes — and pending its purchase of a less expensive property in midtown Manhattan, the national office of the English-Speaking Union of the United States is rent- ing space for the moment in a vicinity associated with such sto- International News ried institutions as the Algonquin Hotel, the Harvard, Princeton, and Yale clubs, and The New Yorker magazine. According to Alice 39TH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER Boyne, the ESU’s Executive Director, the staff and Board are hoping to complete the transition to a new permanent address CONFERENCE TO TAKE PLACE IN OXFORD by November or December. The 39th ESU International Summer Conference will take During the interim the National Headquarters postal address place in July at Oriel College in the . Dele- will be 25 West 45th Street, Suite 1303, New York, NY 10036. gates from as many as thirty ESU organizations around the The current telephone and fax numbers are (917) 777-0460 and world will be on hand for the proceedings. Among the ex- 777-0226. The Web and e-mail addresses remain unaltered: pected attendees will be steering committees from locations as www.english-speakingunion.org and [email protected]. diverse as Hong Kong, Mexico, Mongolia, and Thailand.

Delegates will receive briefings on a wide assortment of topics, among them the British parliamentary tradition, recent A PLEASANT AND PRODUCTIVE changes in the U.K.’s judicial and educational systems, envi- ronmental priorities for developed and developing countries, GET-TOGETHER IN THE GARDEN STATE and the debate over Britain’s role in a rapidly evolving Euro- pean Community. On Saturday, March 31, delegates from seven of the eight ESU branches in Region III of the United States gathered at Law- renceville School, a few miles south of Princeton, New Jersey, for INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENSHIP their annual meeting. The Washington branch was represented A charity headed by Lord Weatherill, former Speaker of the by John Andrews, Graham Down, Susan Merritt, Phillip House of Commons, the Institute for Citizenship is an educa- Miller, and Diana Nicholson. tional organization that aims to improve the teaching of civic

As outgoing Chairman of Region III, Mr. Miller presided over responsibility through the curricular material it develops for the morning session, then transferred power to his successor, Britain’s schools. To promote the Institute’s efforts, the ESU Philip Mossberg of the Philadelphia branch, who led the after- of the Commonwealth recently hosted a ceremony to launch a noon session. Jean Stephens of the Princeton branch and Susan unit on “Learning through Elections.” Presiding over the occa- Merritt of the Washington branch were each elected to two-year sion was the Right Honorable Jack Straw, Britain’s Home Sec- terms as regional Vice Chairs. retary. To introduce him, the ESU of the Commonwealth called upon its eminent Chairman, Lord Watson. Alice Boyne, Executive Director of the national office, gave a report on recent activities in areas such as program devel- opment, membership promotion, and international exchanges. BRITISH COUNCIL’S CAMBRIDGE SEMINAR On behalf of ESU’s U.S. Chairman, William Miller, she also During the first week of July the Washington branch’s presented a certificate of appreciation to Diana Nicholson for Exec-utive Director will be in the U.K. to speak at the British her many years of service to the Nation’s Capital branch. Council’s 27th annual Cambridge Seminar. John Andrews Membership in Region III now exceeds 1,200. The Washington will explore Shakespeare’s role in the Lincoln assassination, branch (360) is the largest, followed by Philadelphia (270), and he’ll be joined on the roster of presenters by such luminar- Princeton (160), Central Pennsylvania [State College] (130), ies as Doris Lessing, David Lodge, and George Steiner. Maryland [Baltimore] (100), Delaware (96), Monmouth County Mr. Andrews will also meet with Valerie Mitchell, Director- [New Jersey] (60), and New Brunswick [New Jersey] (50). General of the ESU, at Dartmouth House in London.

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English in Action A Word from Our President

Does knowing a visitor from abroad or helping a foreign-born Dear Members and Friends, high-school student appeal to you? If so, you should think At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors, I spoke of a three- about becoming involved in one of the most rewarding volun- legged stool: a metaphor to describe the current status of the teer activities that anyone can experience. Washington branch of the English-Speaking Union.

ENGLISH IN ACTION is a one-to-one tutoring program in which One leg that is firmly on the ground is our new home, a beauti- ordinary people meet for informal get-togethers. One will be a ful and well-appointed setting that will provide us with all the person with normal proficiency, but no special training, in the advantages of a clubhouse but none of the headaches that go use of conversational English. The other will be a newcomer — with owning a 111-year-old mansion that has been listed in the a recent immigrant to the U.S., a college student from abroad, National Register of Historic Places. What’s more, we’ll be pay- a professional employed by an embassy or an international ing less rent than we did at either of the office locales that pre- corporation — who wishes to acquire the skillful ease a native ceded this one. That is great news, and in September we’ll be speaker of our language takes for granted. hosting a festive party to announce ourselves to the world. In many cases the individuals who sign up for ESU tutoring The second leg of our stool is a long-overdue endowment drive. sessions are adults who’ve already mastered the rudiments of Spurred on by the generosity of Marjorie Williams and Tony English but wish to sharpen their ability to comprehend and Wright, to the tune of $12,000, the Board is busily engaged in employ idiomatic expressions. In other instances they are raising a dollar-for-dollar match. I’m happy to report that as of young people who were born in foreign countries and are en- this writing we are more than three-quarters of the way toward rolled in high-school courses at the Bell Multicultural School. this ambitious goal. Soon it will be everyone else’s turn. In a Under one traditional format, an ESU tutor agrees to meet short time you and other ESU supporters will receive your own with an adult foreign visitor for an hour of conversation on a invitation: “Do thou likewise.” If your response is what we hope weekly basis at a mutually convenient time and place. Many of and anticipate, by this point a year hence we’ll have raised these meetings occur in a tutor’s home. Others take place at a $36,000 for a fund whose interest and dividend payments will tutor’s or student’s office, at a public library, at a restaurant, or make it considerably easier for the ESU to live within its means. at the ESU’s premises. Some tutors organize visits to museums The third leg of our figurative stool is a strategic-planning and other pertinent sites. It’s not unusual for tutors and their process initiated by Frederic Schwartz, the branch’s First Vice pupils to become lifelong friends and significantly enhance President. Given the competition that nonprofit groups now face each other’s appreciation for their respective cultures. Tutors for people’s time and talent, it’s imperative for an organization needn’t possess teaching backgrounds, because EIA pupils are such as ours to take a hard look at what we do best and think required to have a basic knowledge of English before they ap- carefully about how to do it better. We need a systematic short- ply to the English-Speaking Union for help. and long-term plan. We need the kind of vision that will be Under the Bell Multicultural High School Program, tutors called for as a global ESU confronts the unprecedented de- are paired with foreign-born high-school pupils to help them mands of a century in which English has suddenly emerged as with their studies. Bell has a parking lot and is located near the lingua franca for virtually an entire planet. Irving Street, between 14th and 16th Streets NW, at 3145 I look forward to your continued contributions to a fellowship Hiatt Place NW. The school is one block from the Columbia that is fully committed to all the challenges that come with a new Heights stop on Metro’s Green Line. When possible, several millennium. tutoring sessions are scheduled there simultaneously, so that A. Graham Down EIA volunteers who wish to do so may arrange car pools.

We’re proud to note that two EIA students in the class of 2001 at Bell Multicultural High School have graduated with top honors. Claudia Nyemeck from Cameroon gave the Salutatory Special Thanks Address at her commencement ceremony, and she will study For many years now, the ESU Newsletter for the Washington engineering at the University of Pittsburgh on a full scholar- branch has been edited by Audrey Pendergast, with layout and ship. Similarly, Joseph Gethers will be attending the University publishing assistance from Lara Day, who has also been main- of Louisville on a full-tuition scholarship. taining our Web site. Beginning with this issue of ESU News & If ENGLISH IN ACTION sounds like your cup of tea, please get Announcements, John Andrews assumes the editorship. We’re in touch with EIA’s director, Mrs. Diana Nicholson, at 4600 all immensely grateful to Ms. Pendergast and Ms. Day for their Connecticut Avenue NW, Apartment 723, Washington, D.C. faithful service, and especially for the tremendous help that Ms. 20008. You can reach Diana by telephone at (202) 966-3921. Pendergast has provided with this transitional publication.

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PATRON ($1,000) The ESU and its Mission All SUBSCRIBER-level benefits plus free dual-admission tickets to all ESU gatherings, prominent mention in selected print

Since 1920, when it was created in response to a related or- materials, and acknowledgment at all special occasions

ganization in Great Britain that had been founded at the con- SPONSOR ($2,500) clusion of World War I two years earlier, The English-Speaking All PATRON-level beneits plus four or more free Union of the United States has endeavored to foster social and guest tickets for all ESU gatherings cultural cohesion through the resources and cherished tradi- tions of a language that has become increasingly indispensable as a means of international communication. The ESU now girdles our planet, with members in more than forty different countries and a prestigious London home at historic Dart- Our Newest Members

mouth House near Berkeley Square, and those who belong to We extend an enthusiastic welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Robert any of its local, regional, and national communities are nour- Barr, Colonel and Mrs. Howard L. Burris, Mr. and Mrs. Emmet ished by a vibrant global network. Clausner, Mr. Edwin Conquest, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cul-

Through a rich array of enjoyable and edifying events, and hane, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farner, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. through such imaginative initiatives as an annual Shakespeare Fratkin, Mrs. Margaret Johnson Green, Mr. Stuart Lee Har-bour, competition for secondary-school students, a variety of scholar- Mr. Brian Hook, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hutchinson, Ms. Anne ships for research in noted academic and artistic settings, and a Robertson Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. George Kudravetz, Ms. Lisa valuable tutoring program for those who seek better command E. Kuniholm, Mrs. Robin Lepard, Ms. Henrietta Fiennes, Ms. of a discourse that is not native to them, the Washington area’s Elaine Divall Nashashibi, Ms. Peggy Sands Orchowski, Ms. branch of the ESU is doing its part to promote a heritage that Susannah G. Patton, Mrs. Jannie L. Roher, Ms. C. Audrey continues to link those who share a vital core of common inter- Shaw, Ms. Phyllis T. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice B. ests and mutual aspirations. Tobin, Mr Ben Trachtenberg, Mr. Patrick White IV, and Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Willson. We look forward to greeting all of you If you’re not affiliated with the English-Speaking Union, we’d in person at our earliest convenience. be honored to have you align yourself with this noble heritage either by joining us or by renewing an existing affiliation. All you need to do is decide upon the level of involvement that seems right for you, provide the information called for in the Order Form at right, and submit your completed application, Order Form along with a check payable to the English-Speaking Union, to The ESU member price for each of the events described on the 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036. front page is $40; the non-member price is $45. August 4th’s For a detailed roster of membership levels and benefits, see the excursion to The Pirates of Penzance will be preceded by an op- enumeration of categories that follows. tional Capitol Hill luncheon at a restaurant to be identified in ASSOCIATE (Individual $35, Dual $45) the near future. That gathering, the price for which is yet to be Event notices, membership directory, determined, can be booked separately at a later date.

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