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I'm Julia Turner and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest Sadness as the Bread Edition.

It's Wednesday, May 28, 2014, and on today's program we're going to talk about

the normal heart, the new HBO film written by Larry Kramer based on his 1985 play and directed

by Ryan Murphy about the early days of the AIDS crisis.

Then commencement speeches, there's been a recent flurry of commencement cancellations

as students have protested the politics of their purported commencement speakers and we're going to talk a little

bit about speeches generally our own what a good one consists of and whether a good one is possible at all.

And finally we've all gone in the last week to the new 9-11

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