At the same time, Adam and his fellow contributors’ desires for their pieces were as important as my own.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2026
Still, there is a different feeling of watching a film on the big screen, the velvet darkness of the theater a portal into director Curry Barker’s sinister world of lonely young men and the fatal consequences of their heady desires.
Shipping companies have different risk appetites, with some willing to transit Hormuz while others are staying completely away from the strait, Larsen said.
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Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
17 July 2026
Made famous by Jewish-style delis in Richmond, Virginia, to satisfy the appetites of local Navy seamen, the Sailor sandwich is a meat-centric indulgence.
The real question is whether Pennsylvania and cities like Pittsburgh want skill games and other gambling opportunities to be widespread and unavoidable for people who struggle with compulsions to gamble.
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Jonathan Caulkins,
The Conversation,
17 July 2026
These obsessions lead you to do repetitive behaviors, also called compulsions.
Two of Zohran Mamdani’s enthusiasms — better bus service and soccer — have, in the World Cup, found their moment of zingy cross-pollination.
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Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
4 June 2026
The movie thus offers a complaint about the end results of Putinism, not about the ideas—the emotions, the enthusiasms, the resentments, the hatreds—that brought it about.
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