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Neighbors
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Maximilian in the basement watched TV every night. I lay on a mattress on the floor in the apartment above him. He’d turn on the news around ten, fall asleep,…

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Other Types of Poison
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Three legends

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The Last Tower
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The decline and fall of public housing

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In the Loop
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Obama's hometown takes Washington

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Condos, Chicago, 2008
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Weekly Review
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An American cattleman. Sonia Sotomayor, who is expected to be confirmed to the Supreme Court in August, was interrogated for four days by Democratic and Republican senators of the Senate…

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Deliverance
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Outliers
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Weekly Review
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A Christian martyr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran’s presidential election. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the election results a “divine miracle,” but fraud and voter irregularities…

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Weekly Review
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The Labor Department reported that 533,000 people lost their jobs in November, a further 621,000 people were forced into part-time employment, and 422,000 more simply dropped out of the labor…

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The golden touch
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Rolling with lords of the craps table

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