Whether a Black woman can be afforded the same narrative elasticity as her peers after a betrayal, and be reactive yet sympathetic without her identity becoming the factor that defines how all of it is judged, remains to be seen.
—
Shamira Ibrahim,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Apr. 2026
Crowds gathered, not to buy—few could have afforded the fruit or even known how to eat them—but to gawk.
Or the mood might call for ripping into smoky lamb shoulder, rubbed with baharat (Lebanese seven spice) and rendered to a consistency somewhere wonderfully between melty and ropy.
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Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
What’s heightening the crisis is that stopgaps typically used to offset supply shocks have been rendered moot.
Steven Kwan hit a roller to second that was tailor-made for an inning-ending double play, but because the ball hit Rocchio, he was ruled out and Kwan was awarded a single.
—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
9 Apr. 2026
It was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, less than a year after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, alongside Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, who was imprisoned at the time, and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties.
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