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COLUMN: The Horatio Alger feedback loop

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From: University Wire
Date: 20050427
Author:Aaron Kirschenfeld

Aaron Kirschenfeld
University Wire
04-27-2005
(The Chronicle) (U-WIRE) DURHAM, N.C. -- [Lights up. The two gentlemen are seated in a booth.]

Hey, you know who Horatio Alger is? Yeah, um, wasn't Horatio Alger the guy who wrote those dime novels about the American Dream? Yep, that's the guy. Have you ever read any of them? Who, me? No. I did. Oh yeah? Yeah, I read one called "Ragged Dick," or, "Street Life in New York." Instead of doing orgo? I don't take orgo. You don't? What's the deal with your away messages then? Oh, that. That's a joke. Sometimes I like put up "ORGO!" in them so people ...

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