In the weeks before that dinner, dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and the Times and other outlets reported that world leaders had come to suspect the crown prince in the murder.
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Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2026
The Washington Post has reported that Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, was in favor of the war, for example, although the Saudis have denied this.
The voices captured on that wall belong not to emperors or senators, but to lovers, laborers, sports fans, and artists who left their marks in a corridor between two theaters, never imagining those marks would still be read 2,000 years later.
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Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Mar. 2026
Russell Crowe, 'Gladiator’ (2001) Crowe's Roman warrior Maximus, a general banished to slavery thanks to a petulant young emperor (Joaquin Phoenix) who rises back to glory, is a throwback to old-school Hollywood action heroes that still works.
Similarly, the scale, scope and depth of the AI revolution will also compel the group practice leaders, health system executives, private equity satraps and all others who now pull the strings on so many physicians to adapt to the democratization of medical knowledge.
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Michael L. Millenson,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
The ranks of the leadership are staffed, in large measure, with satraps and mediocrities.
For consistency, all of the prices reflect queen sizes.
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Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
9 Mar. 2026
Mabel befriends dam-building King George (Bobby Moynihan), runs afoul of an insect queen (Meryl Streep) and meets a ton of critters, from an emoji-loving lizard to a professional killer-for-hire shark.
Witkoff went from Qatar to Israel on Saturday and insisted on having a meeting with the prime minister on the afternoon of the Jewish sabbath—a violation of Israeli protocol rudely designed to remind Netanyahu who was the vassal and who was the suzerain.
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Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2025
Citizens of countries historically exploited by the West face higher financial and bureaucratic hurdles to access facilities and resources concentrated in their former suzerain.
The book explores her rags-to-riches journey from a Las Vegas trailer park to podcast stardom and media mogul-hood as the founder of Dumb Blonde Productions.
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Brent Lang,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2026
Hollywood history is filled with stories of studio moguls with roller-coaster careers, but none have had a journey quite like Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy.
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