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The New Year offers a clean slate for long-elusive resolutions. Will 2024 be the year to keep them?

NEW YORK: It's an annual end-of-year exercise in futility for many. But a clean slate awaits at the stroke of midnight for the next round of resolutions.

From the first spray of fireworks to the closing chorus of 'Auld Lang Syne' 366 days into the future — 2024 is a leap year — it could be the year for finally achieving long-elusive goals, fulfilling aspirations and being resolute on all those New Year resolutions.