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The Complete Deaths: all of the Bard’s 74 scripted deaths in one new play.

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Recording Christmas Stories for WAOB Audio Theatre

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CNN Holds Morning Meeting To Decide What Viewers Should Panic About For Rest Of Day

Kicking around ideas ranging from an uptick in child kidnappings to a new link between laptops and cancer, senior CNN staffers held their regular daily meeting this morning to decide which topic viewers should panic about for the rest of the day.  —The Onion Similar:I just found an abandoned blog draft, dated 2011, on economics…

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Shakespeare’s Choose-Your-Own Adventure

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After lights out, the girl is knitting.

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