Separate but equal isn't really possible on any scale in a society where almost everything is related to race in quite powerful ways.

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This careful planning means that not everything (for example, the Securities and Exchange Commission) is found where it might have been expected, but almost everything gets inspected and discussed at last (though there is no proper account of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the New Deal's banker).

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Where once our reach was limited by physical boundaries, today almost everyone and everything is just a digital handshake away.

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And what's missing from, I think, almost all these movies is that wonderful moment in the movie musical where everything was heightened just before they burst into song.

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