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Elizabeth Warren’s unorthodox career

The would-be senator’s first, and most controversial, legacy is her intellectual one

By Leon Neyfakh

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  October 22, 2011

Behind Elizabeth Warren’s young political career is an improbable three-decade journey to the pinnacles of academia--one that has won her acolytes across the country, stirred high-profile arguments from scholars who think she has it wrong, and all started with a photocopier in an airplane seat.

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