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The loss of innocence, and cynicism

March 3, 2012 7:50 PM By ELLIS HENICAN ellis@henican.com

If the battle for America's soul is a never-ending grudge match between innocence and cynicism, the arena just lost two of its purest archetypes.

Who could have predicted that Davy Jones and Andrew Breitbart would ever meet at all? But here they were, in near-perfect symmetry at 66 and 43, departing unexpectedly as if from two different worlds.

For people now solidly in middle age, women...

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