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Garrison Keillor | Christmas Lives On 

Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post 
Keillor writes: "It is hard to believe that the Creator of our universe with its billions of galaxies could have sent Himself to this little blue blip not so long ago in the form of an infant born to a virgin, to be first worshiped by illiterate shepherds where He lay in a feed trough, livestock peering down at Him, Eastern potentates following a star to the site. But here we are again, singing those songs, so we shall see." 
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Aleppo's "Evacuation" Is a Crime Against Humanity 
Ben Taub, The New Yorker 
Taub writes: "Now is the time to stop talking about violations of human rights in Syria, and, instead, to describe atrocities in the proper terms: war crimes and crimes against humanity, as defined, unambiguously, in the Rome Statute, the founding document of the International Criminal Court." 
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"The Apprentice" Employees Feared Professional Reprisal Over Trump Leaks 
David Dayen, The Intercept 
Dayen writes: "Many expected footage of Donald Trump's hundreds of hours in 'The Apprentice' boardroom to yield something just as incendiary. But outtakes from the show were never leaked. One of the plausible reasons why this footage hasn't seen the light of day is that, simply put, many of the employees with access to the footage feared the end of their careers." 
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Can Trump Reverse Obama's Drilling Ban?
Avaneesh Pandey, International Business Times 
Pandey writes: "On Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced that he was earmarking huge swaths of U.S. waters in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans as 'indefinitely' off-limits to offshore oil and gas leasing and drilling. But can the Donald Trump-led administration reverse the ban?" 
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