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Opinion: Mayor Aftab Pureval has enjoyed a City Council composed almost entirely of partisan "yes" men and women who relentlessly ratify his oft-nonsensical policies.

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This Anki deck contains top 5,000 high-frequency English lemmas (as ranked by COCA) in an English-only environment. Each atomic card presents a single sense, with expert-level definitions from Merriam ...