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For Damn Yankees, the devil is in the script
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A Crosscut columnist on values and the civic life makes the case for the valuable civic conversation Crosscut sustains and deepens. Today's drawing is for the Emerson String Quartet, America's finest, performing at Meany. A matching grant will double contributions above $75.
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