But as all the world knows, Edmond Dantès did rise again, transformed from an innocent young sailor into that courtly yet implacable avenger, the Count of Monte Cristo.
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Michael Dirda,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
Montgomery has barely been in the big leagues for two months but has already put his name alongside a couple of franchise icons (and another hard-core punisher of baseballs).
Although state legislative races rarely get the national spotlight, Democrats across the country were positively euphoric at the irony of their Republican nemesis being represented by one of their own.
Some experts see it as a welcome, but possibly temporary, break for states in a scourge that boosted crime as people who are using the drugs sometimes fall into homelessness and steal to support fentanyl habits.
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Kaitlin Coward,
Boston Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
Ukraine has offered assistance to countries throughout the Gulf dealing with a scourge of Iranian drone attacks and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was in Saudi Arabia.
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