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The manger scene with Mary, Joseph and the Baby Jesus in a stable very vividly dramatizes the spirit of Christmas, a symbolic message about power — that by entering the world in a humble form, God recognizes the dignity of the humblest and those who do not share in worldly wealth and power.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
In part through these associations, The Piano Lesson dramatizes the ideas at the heart of its source material.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
That was a play which, in the first act, dramatized this famous Victorian song.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
The film dramatizes the Štrpci massacre of 1993, when 24 Bosniak Muslims were pulled off a train by a Serbian paramilitary group and only one man, the Croatian Tomo Buzov, stood up against the attackers.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
In part through these associations, The Piano Lesson dramatizes the ideas at the heart of its source material.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
That was a play which, in the first act, dramatized this famous Victorian song.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
The film dramatizes the Štrpci massacre of 1993, when 24 Bosniak Muslims were pulled off a train by a Serbian paramilitary group and only one man, the Croatian Tomo Buzov, stood up against the attackers.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
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Murals depicting stories from Hindu scriptures are painted on the city walls.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
13 Jan. 2025
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John McPhee, in an essay published in 2009, depicted fact checking as a pursuit bordering on mania.—
Fergus McIntosh,
The New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2025
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This means that today's versions represent their least capable state.—
Timothy Papandreou,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Earthquake magnitudes are measured on a logarithmic scale, meaning each whole number increase represents a tenfold increase in power of the seismic waves, resulting in approximately 31.6 times more energy released.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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The law has traditionally been interpreted to mean that the election is required in both initiation methods, according to education lawyers consulted by the Star-Telegram.—
Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Jan. 2025
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All the models correctly interpreted parts of the drawing, according to the study—however, none of them expressed concern that the boy was about to fall.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
8 Jan. 2025
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Chalamet recently portrayed Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, the biopic directed by James Mangold, and performed all of his own vocals in the film.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
19 Jan. 2025
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The pair eventually worked together on 2018’s Black Panther, in which Boseman played the titular MCU hero and Jordan portrayed villainous Erik Killmonger.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
18 Jan. 2025
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The Visual Medium Has a Message How does the medium in which an image is rendered, its materiality, shape our perception of the subject matter?—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Jan. 2025
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During the keynote, Huang stated that for one of its demonstrations, the GPU only had to render 2 million pixels in a scene that contained 33 million pixels, with all of the remaining pixels generated by AI.—
Michael Justin Allen Sexton,
PCMAG,
7 Jan. 2025
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And Trump has seemed emboldened by this boost: His staff and surrogates have claimed a mandate to enact swift and comprehensive legislative change and fundamentally rework the administrative state.—
G. Elliott Morris,
ABC News,
13 Jan. 2025
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People who want to see tangible change within their own communities should encourage their state lawmakers to enact similar programs – which are already in various stages of development in New York, Oregon, Maryland, Vermont, and Pennsylvania—and vote for local candidates who are pro-climate.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
13 Jan. 2025
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Six other teams also performed worse at home than on the road, including two home teams this playoff weekend: the Baltimore Ravens (hosting the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday night) and the Houston Texans (hosting the Los Angeles Chargers to kick off the playoff slate).—
Michael Salfino,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
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Legendary actor Harrison Ford eats there on his trips to Wichita when his maintenance performed on his plane, per a Wichita Eagle story.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
10 Jan. 2025
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No one wants to speak to a robot, Morgan instructs, so don't act like one.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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Second, canyons and valleys can act as funnels for the Santa Ana winds.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA TODAY,
11 Jan. 2025
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