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<div><font style="background-color: transparent;">These columns about nurturing our brightest students as well as our athletes seem to crop up every Olympics. Not sure how much progress, if any, has been made since the last, but at least this column by Laura Vanderkam was published on today's USA Today opinion page.</font></div>
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<div><font style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/02/16/sochi-winter-olympics-education-column/5535701/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/02/16/sochi-winter-olympics-education-column/5535701/</a></font></div>
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Mary Collier</div>
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