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ORDINARY DAY in the Wheels office, sometime in the early 1990s. Phone rings. It’s a reader inquiry. “Please, can you tell me what is the ‘O2 advantage’?” the man asks, in an accent that’s from one of Asia’s cricket-playing nations. India maybe.

Whatever his origin, I understood perfectly why he was calling

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