One day, after a long, exhausting chase, some of Roosevelt's friends cornered an American black bear, which they tied to a willow tree, and they called upon the President to shoot it.

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Equally informative (but not as vivid) are the Brooklyn Museum's facsimiles of unbound sketchbooks by artists from several periods, including Degas's more conservative near-contemporary Chase as he drew portraits of his friends and colleagues.

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My hope is that my friends in Bangladesh and girls around the world will get to chase their dreams, too.

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"Hopefully this will teach us not to chase money, but to be humble and treasure our friends and family instead, " she says.

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As predicted, this behavior eventually results in a life of loneliness and dread, probably forcing poor Chase to switch off the Nintendo handheld and seek out his long lost friends.

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