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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Cleveland native Rajiv Joseph, described as “a provocative, risk-taking playwright,” is one of 10 recipients of the 2009 Whiting Writers’ Awards.<BR>

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</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><U><a href="http://www.whitingfoundation.org/whiting_2009.html">http://www.whitingfoundation.org/whiting_2009.html</a></U></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT>

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