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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
       <para>&a.itojun.email; (1997 - 2001; RIP 2008)</para>
       <para>Known to everyone as
         <link xlink:href="http://astralblue.livejournal.com/350702.html">itojun</link>,
-	Jun-ichiro Hagino was was a core researcher at the
+	Jun-ichiro Hagino was a core researcher at the
 	<link xlink:href="http://www.kame.net/">KAME Project</link>,
 	which aimed to provide IPv6 and IPsec technology in freely
 	redistributable form.   Much of this code was incorporated