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EDITORIAL

LEAP INTO LEGEND

elcome to our penultimate issue of 2021, in which we mark a pair of notable 50th anniversaries. November 1971 witnessed one of the strangest and most audacious heists in modern history, when a mysterious man wearing a now iconic dark suit and sunglasses hijacked a Northwest Airlines this year, where he was revealed to be none other than the God of Mischief himself.

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