I was briefly excited that Turnitin.com’s new app works in a park with no WiFi

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Today the awkward but delightful “Monsters, Inc” company play helped me explain why Shakespeare put the awful “Pyramus and Thisby” play after the main plot has resolved in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. http://t.co/WSXD943LpG Similar:Spam: In Your E-Mail and on Your BlogSpam: In Your E-Mail and on Your Blog&nb…BusinessCarolyn as Luciana in the PPT Shakespeare Summer…

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I told them to put their name on both pages.

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