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The Season 2 finale emphasized the show’s most philosophical queries, but one element was hard to swallow.
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Americans’ beloved prime-time dramas threaten the future of a vital procedure.
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Your 20s don’t have to be the “best time of your life.” (From 2021)
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Women have always loved America’s pastime. It has never loved them back.
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“I was astonished one day in 1944, in the midst of front-line hell-raising, to learn that I had been made interpreter, Dolmetscher if you please … It had never entered my head that I had what it took to dolmetsch.” (From 1955)
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As the Civil War ground on, Ralph Waldo Emerson argued vehemently for a federal emancipation of the slaves. Above all else, he asserted, “morality is the object of government.” (From 1862)
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