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■ Dear Mr. Buckley: Sometime during the 1980s, I began to wonder whom to invite if I could select five people who would accept a dinner Invitation. In all these years I haven’t come up with a complete list, which has recently caused me to set a condition on my search: The persons Invited must all be living, which precludes considering such historical figures as the Apostle Paul and Thomas Jefferson.

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notes & asides

■ Dear Mr. Buckley: Sometime during the 1980s, I began to wonder whom to invite if I could select five people who would accept a dinner Invitation. In all these years I haven’t come up with a complete list, which has recently caused me to set a condition on my search: The persons Invited must all be living, which precludes considering such historical figures as the Apostle Paul and Thomas Jefferson.