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The stakes are high because in the 15 years since its passage, the ACA, often nicknamed Obamacare, has become ingrained in the American healthcare system.

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But Lincoln spent rather little energy condemning Taney’s citizenship passage.

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Other somewhat more didactic or exposition-heavy passages include a professor giving a brief lecture about the persistent and pernicious British class system.

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Mr. King’s most harrowing passages mesh the living and the undead in ’Salem’s Lot.

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Dickinson injects some puzzling, dreamy passages throughout “Urchin,” suggesting dark moments from Mike’s past or troubled psyche.

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