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Nov 2022
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Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein

The New York Times
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The Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor talk about their book ‘She Said,’ and Neal Gabler discusses the first volume of his Ted Kennedy biography. 
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