Since coming to Barnes & Noble, in 2019, Daunt, a very English Londoner, has had the curious experience of successfully remaking the book business in places like Wichita, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
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Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2026
In the early ‘80s, the singer was already obscuring his Blackness with makeup (prior to remaking his features with plastic surgery).
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Carolina A. Miranda,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Oct. 2026
Kennedy will helm a team of producers designing the look and content of dual ceremonies that will kick off the Summer Olympics on July 14, 2028 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Exposition Park and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
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James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Oct. 2026
McCormack had a hand in designing some of the company’s first half-dozen restaurants as a contractor, then joined Cheesecake Factory full-time in 1995, a few years after the chain went public.
Indeed, Chinese authorities have already begun refashioning the tools of their security state in response.
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Carl Minzner,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Oct. 2026
Kingsoft Cloud is refashioning itself into an artificial intelligence cloud player — a move that should drive its shares higher, according to Morgan Stanley.
With her knack for devising novel solutions to seemingly insoluble problems, no one was better suited for the job.
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Dean Robbins,
Space.com,
18 Oct. 2026
Mungiu may have a less sadistic streak and a more active camera, but the two filmmakers share a particular commitment to narrative indeterminacy, devising intricate yet incomplete crime-story plots that function broadly as sociopolitical allegories.
This has the effect of creating more sunlight hours in the evening during months when the weather is the warmest.
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Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
28 Oct. 2026
In our community, parents have been able to make up a portion of the rest, but as the cuts keep piling up, more and more parents are considering leaving the system, creating a cycle of disinvestment.
Measuring neuronal activity On top of visualizing the brain’s structures and layout, the ability to manipulate electricity has allowed researchers to learn how neurons communicate.
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Kimberlee D'Ardenne,
The Conversation,
5 Oct. 2026
His mind ran the perimeter of the room, visualizing the window, door, walls, and photos.
Swift, who was deeply learned, was envisaging a nightmare world in which reading and writing — the essential foundation of wit and wisdom — are replaced by a flashy simulation of human knowledge.
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Dónal Gill,
The Dial,
8 Sep. 2026
Gufram and Snarkitecture’s Sculpted Mirror In envisaging the Sculpted Mirror for Gufram, Snarkitecture founders designers Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham carefully studied the theme of reflective surfaces.
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