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Dog Ate Our Homework

A discombobulated week upset our best intentions

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Jeff Stein
May 17, 2024
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SOME WEEKS the stories arrive and depart on time like a French bullet train, as if propelled by rail magnets from assignments to posting.

This week, not so. A tumbling series of events—missed deadlines, a medical mystery, dental appointments, housekeeping mishaps—I could go on—derailed our usual schedule of three, four, sometimes five original stories a …

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