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We hope you guys are getting ready to party in Adam Yauch's honor tonight, because that's the way he would want it.
But before you head out and start bumping some of the greatest Beastie Boys hits with your buddies, let's take a moment to look back at some of the other ways MCA touched people's lives—like starting an organization to help free the Tibetan people and also helping the needy in Kosovo.
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