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What Were They Talking About?

By Garrett M. Graff   Published Tuesday, April 17, 2007

We would have loved to have overheard the conversation at the corner table at the Cosmos Club today where former Smithsonian head Larry Small, who left the post last month under a cloud of scandal, was lunching with Frank Raines, who took "early retirement" as Fannie Mae's CEO amid a cloud of scandal.

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