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For Years, Sly Stallone Has Been Telling a Famous Story About the Making of Rocky. It's a Bunch of Baloney. -- Mike Sielski -- Did the struggling actor really sell his dog, Butkus, to get by while writing his breakout film? The truth is much weirder.

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true - There's No Road Map to Democrats' Success. But There's a Direct Route to Their Failure. Jim Newell - Plus: How do Democrats surf their giant blue wave without wiping out completely?

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