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Thu 07 Jul 2009Rumination incited by an accidental T-shirt

AMERICA AT LARGE:A murdered quarterback and an unlucky astronaut had several things in common

I HADN’T THOUGHT much about it at all when I’d pulled the shirt out of the drawer Tuesday morning. It wasn’t until we were joined in the lift of a midtown office building by two ladies headed off on their lunch hour that anybody mentioned it.