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Department of Corrections

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Last week I referenced New Coke, saying that it was launched in 1990 … but my old friend Tom Gillpatrick of Portland State University pointed out to me that, in fact, it was introduced in 1985.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

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