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    Close Reading

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    Conversations

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    In Aristotle’s Ideal Democracy, a Good Citizen Was a Good Friend

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    An Account of the Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard by the Police Officer, Lynwood Shull

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    By J. J. Mulligan Sepúlveda  January 22, 2019
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    Why Does This Small Vermont Town Have So Many Olympians?

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    Geniuses

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    Quothing

    A Brief and Incomplete Survey of Edgar Allan Poes in Pop Culture

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