That felt sooo good!

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Outtakes from “Once on This Island” promo

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We love us some Sherlock any way we can get it.

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Once On This Island (next weekend)

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Carolyn plays Ti Moune in the Stage Right homeschool company "Once on This Island" next Friday.

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My student journalists sport their fashionable “What Would Jerz Do?” wristbands.

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My journalism students just gave me this wristband: “What would Jerz do? / Verify or duck.”

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A subsection titled “Need for Free Press and Public Trial” was removed entirely. That section, which was included in versions of the manual at least as far back as 1988, according to DOJ archives, read as follows: “Likewise, careful weight must be given in each case to the constitutional requirements of a free press and public…

Facebook shrinks fake news after warnings backfire

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