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Veteran makes his peace with war stories
11-09-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)At first glance, Adjunct Professor Joe Haldeman appears to be a man of contradictions--a pacifist who writes about war, a former astronomy major who has spent his career working in the arts.
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