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The singer, songwriter, and composer Randy Newman had a fascination with the legend of Faust that approached obsession. Beginning around...
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In the months leading up to a presidential election, bookstores fill with campaign memoirs. These titles are, for the most...
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Two of them were sprawled out on a long concrete bench in front of the main Haverford College library, one...
