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The announcement that John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, plans to run for an open seat in New York’s 12th Congressional District prompted The Atlantic to respond with a headline begging, “Please, Not Another Kennedy.”

From Salon

Which begs the question: what are the prime minister and chancellor going to do about it?

From BBC

She was so ill she begged doctors to deliver her baby two months early.

From BBC

‘My parents begged me never to put him in a home’: I have taken care of my disabled brother my entire life.

From MarketWatch

Even Emily Blunt was publicly disconcerted, begging Hollywood agencies to “please stop taking away our human connection.”

From Los Angeles Times