The group was A-Bing different cables, and unbeknownst to them, the engineer running the test swapped out a set of cables for coat hangers with soldered-on speaker connections.

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There is something essential about the intellectual, emotional, and physical connections a good speaker can make with an audience, something that cannot happen on the printed page.

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So has Ali Larijani, the speaker of the parliament and a man with strong family connections to the highest levels of the religious hierarchy.

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