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The Rise of Calamari, Fueled by Rhode Island’s Dirty Politics

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The story of how squid became calamari and how calamari became the state’s official appetizer is more Coppola than Capra.

S.E. Cupp

On May 10, 1974, Paul Kalikstein turned in his Master thesis at the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a graduate student in Management Science.

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S.E. Cupp

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