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Martin Luther King Jr. was a pretty good public speaker, but what if he’d delivered his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech with the aid of Microsoft PowerPoint? William Easterly, an economics professor at New York University, has imagined just that, with predictably inarticulate results.