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    "id": 5682,
    "subject": "Autarchial Succession - How Does It Look From Outside?",
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    "first": "2010-08-01T08:58:41+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<4C553741.8050309@io.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
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      "date": "2010-08-01T08:58:41+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Autarchial Succession - How Does It Look From Outside?",
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          "text": "The brain-eating thing seems to be a secret, and as Vodalus says, they \nmay reign a half century or a fortnight. But what story is told to the \nCommonwealth? What keeps people seeking to corrupt the process in their \nfavor from discovering the secret? What gives the fealty-swearing vasals \nconfidence that the new Autarch isn't just someone who planted a bug on \nthe old Autarch to learn the mastering words and then did him in?"
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\nIEEE Student Chapter Blog at\n< http://ieeetamut.org >"
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