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{Speaker 1}
[00:00:06]
...and probably if I wrote it to somebody else

[[laughing]]

[00:00:10]
{Speaker 2}
And Dear Alan, I [laughs] hesitate to interrupt this interesting conversation here, but since we're all discussing the same problem, namely how to get a grant, uh [laughs] it seems appropriate to uh, answer some of the questions that are [laughs] most uh, foremost in your mind.

[00:00:31]
{Speaker 1}
It just so happens that a few experts [laughs] uh have dropped in to help us, and at this moment, Mario will take over.

[00:01:02]
{SPEAKER = "Mario Bick"}
I'll try and give you a full analysis of the social structure. [[laughing]] [[crosstalk]] I've been informed that I might ...[trail off], that this isn't particularly a good idea. Uh, in terms of who's still there that might be of some use to you in terms, in African Studies at least, Elliott Skinner's now pretty much taken over the advisee position, or advisor, excuse me, position. Abe Rosman is there and uh, in addition, let's see, there's Bob Murphy, who probably will have something to do with you if he likes you, which may not be the case, you never can tell [laughs]. Uh, Doctor Harris has now taken over the reign of the First Egyptian Dynasty at Columbia, and has secluded himself in one of the pyramids and in addition to that, the linguist is Hendon, the uh, as I mentioned Bob Murphy is now at Columbia and he'll be there when you get back. Uh, Lambros Comitas is still there, and that's about...[aside] is that all the ethnologists?