Players and coaches have become maddeningly mealy-mouthed, striving to avoid upsetting agents, sponsors, owners, fans, thin-skinned politicians, and whoever else might object.
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Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
David Rubenstein, principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles, was also among the guests, sources told Candy Woodall of Spotlight on Maryland.
Chef and co-owner Luis Robledo Richards specializes in pastry and makes his own line of chocolates available at the restaurant—do not leave without an order of crispy churros dipped in dark Mexican chocolate and crème fraîche.
Tasty-morsel entrepreneurship stands in here for a modern kind of Protestant work ethic, but gets sprinkled with the sense that cuteness, like beauty for older women, is a commodity in itself that the possessor can exploit to their own advantage.
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