Tish's acute sensibility, belonging and not belonging to both sides, gives us a world of battle lines, elites and exclusions and an atmosphere as intensely painful, embarrassing, and funny, as only school can make it.

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To now admit to doping after years of denial will undoubtedly be painful and embarrassing for Armstrong, a proud and intensely competitive man.

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