Cut through a park, and you go from English to Spanish, black to white, Puerto Rican to Polish.

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Why should we go watch your crappy The Thing prequel when we can just watch old black and white film or the superlative John Carpenter remake?

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While there are still two weeks to go and things could change, both Fattah, who is black, and Brady, who is white, have an uphill climb.

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