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<title><![CDATA[John Sailer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/45236.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Sailer]]></description><category domain="45236">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How a Mellon Grant Fueled Fringe Scholar-Activism in TX]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/university-of-texas-san-antonio-mellon-foundation-grant?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Funding of $5 million supported academics who want to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'decolonize education'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and dismantle capitalism and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'heteronormativity.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mellon Foundation Funding a Fight Against Civics Schools]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/mellon-foundation-funding-civics-schools?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Meeting minutes show the American Association of University Professors is trying to undermine civic leadership schools.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mellon Foundation's Patronage Network]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/mellon-foundation-humanities-university-jobs?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The nonprofit and a handful of other progressive groups are remaking the humanities in their image.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SDSU Building 'Decolonized Internship' Program]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/san-diego-state-university-ethnic-studies-internships-mellon-foundation?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The public university is using Mellon Foundation money to build]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mellon Foundation's Idea of 'Social Justice']]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-mellon-foundations-idea-of-social-justice-d73cebf7?st=bYQ47U</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s biggest funder of the humanities subsidizes '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Ecowomanism,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Black Trans Studies'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' and the like.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[UVA's President Was Right To Resign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/university-of-virginia-uva-president-jim-ryan-resignation?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The University of Virginia drew national headlines last summer when its then-president, Jim Ryan,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' resigned'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the face of a Department of Justice investigation into a potential pattern of civil-rights violations by the university. More recently, Ryan and others have'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' accused'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ohio State's Activist Hiring Program]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/ohio-state-university-dei-hiring-professors?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The university's since-abandoned DEI initiative onboarded left-wing professors.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Introducing the City Journal College Rankings]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/2025-college-rankings?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A data-driven rating system, capturing dimensions long neglected by mainstream systems, that will help American students and parents identify the best school for them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Federal Dollars Bankrolled University Diversity Hiring]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/national-science-foundation-university-diversity-hiring?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation has funded so-called diversity checkpoints in faculty hiring.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How DEI Bureaucrats Control University Hiring]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/university-hiring-dei-diversity-checks-discrimination?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In early 2021, Carma Gorman, an art history professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the designated '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'diversity advocate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' for a faculty search committee,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' emailed John Yancey, the College of Fine Arts'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' associate dean of diversity, seeking approval to proceed with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yale Professors Call Out University's Bureaucracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/yale-professors-open-letter-faculty-hiring?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It denounces administrative bloat and stresses the importance of focusing on the academic mission.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Foundation Bankrolling Radical Activists in Higher Ed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/mellon-foundation-higher-education-funding-scholar-activist-pipeline?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At Columbia University, the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Racial Justice and Abolition Democracy Project'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' created a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' curriculum'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to help college students imagine a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'society without jails and prisons.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' At Morgan State University, the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Black Queer Everything'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' initiative developed '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'transformative...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Death Knell for Diversity Statements]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-death-knell-for-diversity-statements?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The University of California system's abandonment of a policy that it pioneered is a turning point in higher education.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jay Bhattacharya Can Bring Science Back To NIH]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/bhattacharya-can-bring-science-back-to-nih-health-medicine-8b97e25e?st=KXX1Qe</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The agency has created career pathways built on race rather than merit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harvard Rolls Back DEI]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/harvard-faculty-arts-sciences-dei-statements</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The university's largest school will no longer require diversity, inclusion, and belonging statements when hiring.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yale Tells Hopeful Scientists: You Must Commit to DEI]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/yale-science-dei-job-description</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One department seeks applicants who "feel personal responsibility for helping to create an equitable and inclusive environment."'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MIT Becomes First Elite University To Ban Diversity Statements]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/newsroom/mit-becomes-first-elite-university-to-ban-diversity-statements/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In what's likely to be a watershed moment, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ended the use of diversity statements for faculty hiring, making it the first elite private university to backtrack on the practice]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the New Racism Took Over Our Colleges]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/how-the-new-racism-took-over-our-colleges/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://tomklingenstein.com/how-the-new-racism-took-over-our-colleges/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The entire experience of higher education in America now requires saturation in the racialized principles of DEI.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The DEI Rollback Hasn't Made It to Nebraska]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/diversity-equity-inclusion-nebraska-john-sailer</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.thefp.com/p/diversity-equity-inclusion-nebraska-john-sailer]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DEI is is alive and well at the University of Nebraska'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Lincoln's College of Engineering]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The DEI Rollback]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/john-sailer-the-dei-rollback</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.thefp.com/p/john-sailer-the-dei-rollback]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices are still deeply entrenched at our institutions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but the retrenchment is well under way.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Ohio State's DEI Factory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-ohio-states-dei-factory-faculty-report-diversity-hiring-cefd804d?mod=opinion_lead_pos5</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-ohio-states-dei-factory-faculty-report-diversity-hiring-cefd804d?mod=opinion_lead_pos5]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I obtained 800 pages of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 'Diversity Faculty Recruitment Reports.' Here's what I found.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Curing Cancer Isn't the Priority]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/san-diego-state-universitys-dei-litmus-test</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.city-journal.org/article/san-diego-state-universitys-dei-litmus-test]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The school prioritizes ideology in its search for a new cancer biologist.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welcome to Racialized Med Schools]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/americas-racialized-medical-schools</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget about the oath to do no harm, future doctors are being forced to swear allegiance to racial dogmas]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DEI Supplanting Truth as the Mission of Universities]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/how-dei-is-supplanting-truth-as-the</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.thefp.com/p/how-dei-is-supplanting-truth-as-the]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An obsession with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion threatens students, professors, and the very credibility of higher education in the U.S.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Higher Ed's New Loyalty Oaths]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/higher-ed-new-woke-loyalty-oaths-dei</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/higher-ed-new-woke-loyalty-oaths-dei]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A ballooning number of hiring and tenure decisions require candidates to express written fealty to political doctrines]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Is Tearing Academia Apart]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/thepost/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-is-tearing-academia-apart/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://unherd.com/thepost/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-is-tearing-academia-apart/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ideological litmus tests are becoming the norm in American academia. Already, many universities require faculty job candidates to submit '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'diversity statements'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' 19% of the faculty job listings in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' one recent survey. Now, similar requirements increasingly apply to sitting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Impose DEI at Medical Schools]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/dont-impose-dei-med-schools-opinion-1727735</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.newsweek.com/dont-impose-dei-med-schools-opinion-1727735]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DEI standards will likely lead to substantively harmful medical policy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Woke Racial Activists Have Captured the Field of Public Health]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/why-public-health-went-woke</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.city-journal.org/why-public-health-went-woke]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Professional and academic standards require the embrace of health equity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Medical School Accreditation Body Solicits DEI Initiatives]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/medical-school-accreditation-body-solicits-dei-initiatives</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.city-journal.org/medical-school-accreditation-body-solicits-dei-initiatives]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The medical-school accreditation body places an increasing emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Unhealthy Obsession With Critical Race Theory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/critical-race-theory-at-unc-gillings-school-of-public-health</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.city-journal.org/critical-race-theory-at-unc-gillings-school-of-public-health]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Sailer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s top schools for public health puts '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'antiracist'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' instruction at the center of its curriculum.]]></description>
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