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The chattering classes - mostly on the left and right coasts - are all Gaga over the latest attempt to sanitize Twain. For some background and discussion, please see: "Censoring Twain" - on the Chronicle of Higher Education Brainstorm Blog and
"Do Word Changes Alter Huckleberry Finn" - On the New York Times Room for Debate From the Project Gutenberg Version of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn":
Now Twain knew exactly what he was doing here; even ET would get the message. But it is complicated, as Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor, who is associate dean and the Carville Dickinson Benson Research Professor of Law at George Washington University, put it:
His colleague, Professor Margaret Soltan at GWU noted:
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