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As the United States President, Donald Trump, tries to reform his country via a hail of executive orders, a common grammatical element has jumped onto international consciousness. That is pronoun. The ...

Shorewood High School cracked down. Under a new schoolwide policy, students now have to check their phones into caddies – hanging sheets full of pouches – as they walk into every classroom.

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Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

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