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This week’s [http://danvilleexpress.com/square/index.php?i=3&d=&t=4587 Raucous Caucus] highlights writer George Saunders’ commencement address to graduates of Syracuse University, where he teaches part-time. Tom Cushing asks readers, “Should we strive to be ‘kinder’ as a central tenet of how we approach the world?”

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