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You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.
Robert Hass
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Robert Hass
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 1
Literary Critic
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San Francisco County
California
Robert L. Hass
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[Osip] Mandelstam was killed by Stalinist forces.
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Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.
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