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Civic Rage

By Andrei Codrescu
Published October 28, 2002 at 7:00 PM HST

Commentator Andrei Codrescu says that when New Orleans city officials removed benches from Jackson Square to ward off vagrants, they were being untrue to the city's character.

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Andrei Codrescu
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