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In defeat, Laguna Beach made clear it will be a team to reckon with next season.

What ultimately happens here will say a lot about how we reckon with the folk heroes we create, long after they’re dead—and even after all they’ve done comes into full view.

Arthur begins as a thuggish, cigar-smoking, sausage-eating, drunken clown, until he’s forced, by events, and the possibility of inheriting the presidency, to reckon with himself.

Americans who want to believe that the courts will save us have to reckon with the possibility that the Supreme Court will not.

Kimberly-Clark must reckon with other risk factors, TD Cowen analysts wrote Monday.