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Recent Examples of recopyTo counter the faulty machinery, election workers will have to manually recopy the mail-in ballots with illegible barcodes into new ballots under the election code, but every valid vote ultimately will be counted properly, Garcia said last week.—Elizabeth Thompson, Dallas News, 2 Nov. 2020
Backlist In a sense, the backlist has existed for almost as long as there has been a printing press, since at its most fundamental level, the backlist consists of those titles for which the publisher still has copies in stock for a considerable amount of time after they were first printed.
And Congress cannot pass any laws that abridge the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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Chris John Amorosino,
Hartford Courant,
16 Apr. 2026
The First Amendment prevents the government from making laws that abridge freedom of speech.
Before getting sunk by a turgid love story — the kind of cinematic dead zone Thalberg would have blue-penciled in the screenplay stage — The Last Tycoon provides a good sense of what a producer actually does.
The sad but realistic turns in their lives are engrossing, as is their slow convergence.
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Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
Kirk Jones’ engrossing film about him is an inspiration, showing how Davidson increased awareness about the realities of this disorder and brought people with it together.
Livesey, a professor emerita at the University of Oklahoma, is recognized as a significant Pauline scholar, and her book is closely argued, formidably annotated, and beautifully provocative.
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
That’s become a multibillion-dollar opportunity for startups like Micro1, which also annotate the videos so that robots can differentiate objects, distances and physical movements.