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When Manchester United and Crystal Palace take the field in the English F.A. Cup final in London

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Recently, Aubrey Bloomfield, a graduate student at The New School, and I wrote a piece for

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The French national team player Patrice Evra was dribbling up the pitch when the second bomb

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