All those kids in inner cities and small farm towns, in these Ohio valleys, or the rolling hills of Virginia, somewhere in Jersey, somewhere in Brooklyn, maybe even a kid in Hawaii -- kids dreaming of becoming scientists or doctors, engineers or entrepreneurs, diplomats or musicians, maybe even a President, they need a champion in Washington.

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On last year's Gulag Orkestar, Condon and his oversized band of New York-based indie world-music explorers sounded as if they'd been stranded not in Brooklyn, but somewhere near the Ukraine (but only after making a pit stop in Paris).

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That description puts the aircraft somewhere over Brooklyn and on the other side of the airport from where the plane was coming in for a landing.

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