Presidential debates are now alley-fights in which a shanking is the norm, or else.
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Apparent randomness doesn't mean putting aside choice. On the contrary.

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Avenging samurais can be interesting figures, until their raison d'être yields to violence alone.

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Italo Svevo, born Aron Hector Schmitz, time and again presaged the modern curve.

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