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“It was me picking at my insides about the grief and disappointment I was dealing with,” she said.

That gives her influence over whom Mamdani picks at City Hall to carry out his affordability agenda and is unlikely to assuage concerns that his administration will carry out an agenda unfriendly to business.

It was set up for them nicely, even more so when they won the toss and got the chance to try to pick at raw South African batting wounds by bowling first.

Dramatizing the acts of notorious serial killers fires up the journalistic engine devoted to picking at the carcass of accuracy.

On this, his third album, he picks at the scabs of northern working-class life, and rails against a system that leaves families mired in bureaucratic neglect.