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As directed by Mr. Burns and frequent collaborators Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, “The American Revolution” is also less a celebration of a revolution than a redress of grievances.

Still, I missed the truly misanthropic lead of King’s novella, a sour bigot radicalized to see himself not just as a cog in a machine but as a spoke in a revolution.

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Once viewed as a wunderkind from the beginning of baseball’s data revolution—he was the loose basis of Jonah Hill’s character in the “Moneyball” movie—DePodesta abandoned the sport nearly a decade ago.

“It’s a war of big ideas. It’s a revolution, it’s a world war and it’s a brutal, ugly, vicious, 18th century war.”

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While Brussels has praised progress made since the 2014 revolution, its latest monitoring report said: "The integrity, meritocracy and capacities of the judiciary and prosecutorial service... remain weak."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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