My kids and I used to love playing Mad Libs, the storytelling game in which you ask somebody for a list of random verbs and nouns and adjectives to inject
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Some reporters can build a career around their own personal brands. But doing great work requires an infrastructure, including a lot of talented people who don t get bylines. Barry Sussman the Watergate journalist named neither "Woodward" nor "Bernstein" was one.
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