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Sleeping in Class

The Good Shepherd‘s Dull History Lesson

In The Good Shepherd, a tense Yalie named Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is tapped to join Skull and Bones on the basis of his WASP bona fides. (The secret society politely overlooks his father’s disreputable death.) He’s uptight and pale and has a penchant for poetry, so you’d think the sexually charged initiation would send […]

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