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If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

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Calvin Trillin
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
Lawyer
Humor
Law
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School
Come
Many
Hard
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