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 | | Burke's so preoccupied with the handshake that he recently declined membership in a city church when he was disappointed by the minister's "fishy" handshake. |
 | | As an academic, Burke, who grew up in Overbrook before landing at Episcopal Academy, then Harvard, Michigan and Bryn Mawr to earn his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D., respectively, all in classics and Latin, says it'd be easy for the book he's preparing on the topic to be scholarly and boring. |
 | | Burke reveals that the day Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, his hand was so sore from shaking hands the day before, he almost couldn't sign the landmark document. |
| www.citypaper.net /articles/2005-11-03/naked.shtml (851 words) |
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