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‘This Is America’: Biden Honors 17 With Presidential Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON — After conferring the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 17 people, including the gymnast Simone Biles and former Senator John McCain, who was honored posthumously, President Biden said, “This is America.” But the celebratory event in the East Room of the White House on Thursday said as much about the president as it did […]
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‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane
The poet John Berryman wrote of “Macbeth” that “no other Shakespearean tragedy is so desolate, and this desolation is conveyed to us through the fantastic imagination of its hero.” The universe of the play — a haunted, violent patch of ground called Scotland — is as dark and scary as any place in literature or […]
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