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	June 17, 2003

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Comedian ADAM SANDLER was a surprise guest speaker at the graduation ceremony of his old high school in Manchester, N.H. Sandler, whose nephew was a class valedictorian, filled in for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who canceled because the date changed — or as Sandler put it, because he came down with "a wicked bad case of a fake tummy ache." Sandler himself was never a valedictorian. "I came very close," he said, "but was narrowly beaten by 622 other students."

— Lev Grossman


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FROM THE JUNE 23, 2003 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED JUNE 17, 2003