WRITING SAMPLES

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Sports

• Pioneers lead, pole vault to go
• Mantei happy just to pitch in // Sox reliever’s shoulder OK
• Dillon tops 1,000 yards // Accomplishes feat in team-record 10 games

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Entertainment

• Bay State’s Dane Cook strikes comedic gold on HBO // Early Boston Gigs had ‘Dane Train’ wondering if he should quit
• MUSIC REVIEW — Reveille at The Palladium