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Most of which would have been beyond the ken of the most daring 19th-century Scandinavian dramatist.

That didn’t happen here because Drozd, an Obama appointee, can recognize a factitious claim for standing when it swims into his ken.

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He was also recruited to civic leadership roles that were beyond the ken of politically-hobbled government bureaucracies.

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When Mani audited a course on theoretical physics, it was generally assumed that the material would be "beyond her ken", Sur observes.

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But Rome and its environs conceal many holy places beyond the ken of the Bible.

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