diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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   file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
   mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
 
-<<<<<<< .working
 - Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
   asking for a specific length.
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-Build
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-<<<<<<< .working
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-- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
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-
-What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
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 What's new in Python 3.0b2?
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