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15 June 2003

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…”Spellbound,” the new documentary about the national spelling bee. All eight students–between 10-13–are tremendously interesting; some of them inspire pity for the pressure (implicit and explicit) they’re under–pressure to succeed, sure, but pressure to deal with differences in culture and class, and in the largest sense, the great task of becoming oneself..I admired all of [...]

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