This is my header, it stretches all the way across and is not a <div> tag

A flanking bar of content that's not the same content.

And hey! Some more superfluous content.

Going to a second paragraph, just because.

This page has a hack needed for Mozilla's bug with clearing floats, which causes content next to the content in the side columns to need to be slightly further indented than content which is not next to the float. This hack is removed for IE only, but other browsers will still see the same stupid effects.

This is not the only way to accomplish the three column layout; most likely another exists with no need for such a stupid hack.

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