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Patrick Ewing • Vera Rubin • Bill Clinton • Steve Bannon • Antonin Scalia • Min Jin Lee • Hunter Biden • Saad al-Hariri • Iván Duque • Jerome Powell • Tony Smith • Michael Steele • Josh Shapiro • Joseph Dunford • Jon Ossoff • Lisa Murkowski • Robert M. Gates • Dikembe Mutombo • George Mitchell • Hakeem Jeffries • Bradley Cooper • Laura Chinchilla • Gloria Macapagal Arroyo • Pat Buchanan • Dick Durbin • Steny Hoyer • Mark Kirk • Felipe VI • Bob Barr • John Dean • Patricia Russo • Chris Van Hollen • Alonzo Mourning • John Guare • John Barrasso • Dan Sullivan • Patrick Leahy • Mazie Hirono • Maria Shriver • John Sirica

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