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Forbes & Fifth FORBES & FIFTH 80 David Madison avid Madison is a senior double ma- Djoring in Film Studies and Communica- tion-Rhetoric with a Political Science mi- nor. After graduation he hopes to work Ƥ - tographer. When not writing about the hijinks of the Bluth family, David’s hob- Ƥǡ ǡ motorcycling, and Argentine tango. 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