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Sitting around a table in the soundstage where the pilot for I Love Lucy was filmed, the six of them tailored the roles to the actors and infused the script with arguments, embarrassments, and confessions from their own relationships.
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What happens when the material is not confession but trace?
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After Phil Nevin and Ron Washington also failed to hold the managerial job for more than two seasons, Minasian hired first-time manager Kurt Suzuki from his own front-office staff last fall, giving him a one-year deal with the acknowledgment that their fates were tied.
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In September 2024, the USDA quietly terminated its 30-year-old annual report on household food insecurity — effectively ending the official tracking and acknowledgment of hunger in America.
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For starters, there is one urgent mission the pope must take on the road to atonement.
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But his atonement comes too late.
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For Alston, the scale of the effort offers a personal vindication.
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Markets do not pay for eventual intellectual vindication.
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Dodger fans make noise in West Sacramento Dodgers fans, for the third straight game, packed the stands of Sutter Health Park and most stayed until the final out, even with their team trailing by six runs in the top of the ninth inning.
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However, the bill was so contentious that in order to squeak it through, legislators stuffed it full of carve-outs and exemptions, allowing cities to delay implementation by passing their own plans to add density.
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The rationale is understandable.
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That, together with preemptive blocking and generalized rationales, suggests that the volunteer community is increasingly prioritizing prevention, efficiency and content quality over efforts to rehabilitate new users.
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One rationalization turned into a system of secrecy.
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None of this makes any sense, except as desperate rationalizations from a man who cannot face facts and admit defeat.
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Creative output alone is no longer sufficient justification for investment.
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What was the breakdown for and against and what justifications did the majority give for its decision?
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“Extenuation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extenuation. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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