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January 26th, 2004 at 10:13 am

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My Manhattan Institute colleague Jim Copland has a piece this morning on Sen. Edwards as the candidate of Trial Lawyers, Inc. (”Primary Pass”, Jan. 26) citing our Jan. 20 commentary. For more of our coverage of Sen. Edwards, see links from that commentary and from our Jan. 23 item.

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