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Shane Christie and Billy Guyton were the sort of mates so in touch that they felt the other shiver. Each played rugby union with the ferocity of men who had something to prove: Guyton was nicknamed ...
During a drive through New Hampshire, Chenyang “Leo” Lin noticed a few squirrels darting through the trees. It was a simple, unremarkable moment. But he remembered it clearly, along with the farmland ...
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." William Butler Yeats wrote those words about Europe after the Great War, but they ring with terrible clarity this week ...