When I visited the offices [in St. Petersburg, Florida] in…

When I visited the offices [in St. Petersburg, Florida] in March, the walls were bare, the furniture battered. With the addition of a dead plant, the suite could pass for a graduate-student lounge.

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Stacy Schiff, 2006-07-31, Can Wikipedia conquer expertise? , The New Yorker

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