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Rani Neutill

Student at The Startup Institute; Server at the Miracle of Science; recovering academic, and a surviving feminist, Baltimore City lover, lives in Cambridge, MA.

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Sixteen years in academia made me an a-hole

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Doris Day in "Pillow Talk," Michael Kenneth Williams and Michael Kevin Darnall in "The Wire" (Universal Pictures/HBO)

My trigger-warning disaster: “9 1/2 Weeks,” “The Wire” and how coddled young radicals got discomfort all wrong

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