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On the course, elaborate tombs of the city's past rulers poke through tangled trees that are home to peacocks, troops of monkeys and mongooses.

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Deftly unraveling the tangled politics of the moment, Mr. Wallace vividly shows La Guardia juggling factions of fusionist Republicans, communists, interventionists, isolationists, Tammany pols and a rat’s nest of the city’s fierce ethnic rivalries.

“The Perfect Neighbor”: What begins as a vaguely comical and seemingly minor dispute between neighbors arguing about unruly children on a suburban Florida street grows increasingly tangled and, finally, violent.

Back in the Eagles days, Leadon was recognizable for a tangle of curly hair and a handlebar mustache.

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This isn’t the first time Ohio’s police forces have tangled with rogue seasonal decor.

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