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Election campaign a grim foreshadowing of the non-reconciliation to come
By Editorial Oct. 23, 2019
Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you. This bastardization of a famous quote by U.S. president John F. Kennedy kind of sums up the past few weeks on the campaign trail.
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