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The mysterious “11 words” of these things have been a fixation of John Prados. Circuit Judge Roger Robb compared these things to a “swarm of bees” and admonished Erwin Griswold for effectively asking him to “ride herd” on them. Linda Amster, Betsy Wade, and Linda Charlton all received no public credit for a task involving these things since their superiors claimed not to want women to go to jail. Before a meeting of the Subcommittee on Buildings and Grounds, Senator Mike Gravel read these things (10[7])into the (10[2])public (10[3]-5[1])record (10[2])as part of a (10[1])filibuster (10[1])against renewing the draft. The RAND Corporation composed these things (10[1])on the orders of Robert McNamara. Henry Kissinger (10[1])dubbed a person “the most dangerous man in America” (10[2])for leaking these things (10[1])to the press. (10[1])For 10 points, name this set of documents released by Daniel Ellsberg that unveiled government lies (10[1])about the scope of the Vietnam War. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Pentagon Papers [or Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force] (The “11 words” made up the only phrase set to be redacted from the public release of the Pentagon Papers in 2011, so when the full public release had no redacted material, Prados attempted to determine what that phrase would have been.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%4%99.21

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Daniel MaYale AChicago B8410
Sarod NoriCornell BChicago C8410
Steven LiuMIT AColumbia A8410
Jonathan TranCornell AChicago A8410
Arjun NageswaranHarvard AUC Berkeley A8410
Tim MorrisonStanford AWUSTL A8410
Caleb KendrickMaryland AFlorida A8410
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AOhio State A8610
Jerry LinDuke ABrown A8610
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BHouston A8710
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia Tech BPenn State A8710
Justin WytmarIllinois AWUSTL B8710
Vinu HariharUC Berkeley BMichigan A87-5
Justin HawkinsIndiana AMinnesota A8810
Joseph ChambersVirginia AMcGill A8810
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn ASouth Carolina A9210
Darren PetrosinoRutgers AIowa State A9310
Dean Ah NowClaremont AYale B10310
Nicholas TunksMinnesota BFlorida B11110
Collin AceRutgers BJohns Hopkins A12010
Alex PijanowskiPurdue ANYU A12010
Jonathan ShaufNorth Carolina ATexas A12410
Sky LiToronto ANorthwestern A12710
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AImperial A14310
James StevensonMichigan AUC Berkeley B15110