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The New Yorker stopped pining for Dhaka years ago. Those days are long gone. The ones with youth. Options. Optimism.
New York City: 10 Numbers That’ll Wow You
Living in Upstate New York, it’s easy to have an inferiority complex. Why? Because Downstate is home to the city.
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Julieta Venegas has been perfectly situated to dabble in the sounds of North America. Born in Long Beach, California, and
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The US is obsessed with its states. As evidence, each one gets an entire star on the national flag. Not
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Too happy. Too predictable. Bland. Cheesy. Just bad. Dave Matthews Band has heard it all. And it kept going.
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Writers change the world Actually, scratch that They simply unfurl The abundance of claptrap Because no one listens The
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I’ve been accused of painting an overly gloomy picture of 21st-century doctoring. So to make amends and prove that things
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