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OPINION | MIKE MASTERSON: On existence
Editor's note: The original version of this column was published Feb. 11, 2001. The distinguished-looking man with wiry hair and a beard to match seemed near retirement age. He carried himself with a rumpled air of relaxed authority, the type who might …