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Stephen Smith

The invisible man rises again

By Stephen Smith
February 14, 2007

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ALTHOUGH SEPARATED by more than 50 years, and the success of the civil rights movement, politician Barak Obama and Ralph Ellison's existential hero of the "Invisible Man" have something in common. (Full article: 847 words)

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