His head lifts, as if he had only been looking for his napkin under the table.

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Finally, Biden threw his napkin on the table and stood up.

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An English muffin set me back an even three bucks this morning but it came to our table delicately wrapped in a napkin folded by an origami expert.

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All this interplay of people and ideas, even old fashioned coffee-table and back-of-napkin brainstorming, are profoundly enabled by modern communications technology and by the infrastructure of a great university.

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