Amid a host of synthetic textures, the batá grounds the record in its spiritual reference; only the twins’ perspective changes.
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Stefanie Fernández,
Pitchfork,
3 July 2026
Sara Bareilles grounds the action as the everywoman at the show’s center, with Busy Philipps and Paula Pell inhabiting every hilarious corner of their outsized characters.
Schenck essentially preaches staying on the back leg, coiling up the body, letting the ball go as deep as possible and then unleashing a swing as fast as possible.
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Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 June 2026
There’s Mallory McMorrow, a moderate technocrat who preaches the virtues of reaching across the aisle and keeping her own party’s tent roomy.
Not every Xfinity or Comcast customer qualifies for a payment from the settlement.
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Brian Sloan,Dan Avery,
CNBC,
6 July 2026
Denver’s Jamal Murray, Golden State’s Andrew Wiggins and Portland’s Shaedon Sharpe are among the players who did not commit and, accordingly, will not be available to play in the World Cup or the 2028 Olympics, assuming Canada qualifies for both.
As the country prepares to mark its semiquincentennial, or 250th birthday, the splashiest celebrations in Washington are being shaped by corporate money.
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Luke Fountain,
CNBC,
3 July 2026
Guilherme Passos monitors and prepares Brazil’s national team for extreme heat as a sport scientist at the Brazilian Football Federation.
Trump views it in zero-sum terms, as a thing the strong seize from the weak—a view that informs his constant desire to steal natural resources from smaller countries.
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Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2026
This was my strategy throughout the book and informs my citational practices as well.
Bathrooms are shared—a not-so-subtle feature that familiarizes everyone quickly.
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Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
29 Mar. 2026
This week's batch of songs includes classics like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, paired with visuals that help kids learn more about team work and familiarizes bedtime routines.
Today’s successful downtowns rely on a mix of ingredients, said Steven Falk, the former city manager of Lafayette, who’s served as an interim city executive in Oakland and Richmond and who lectures at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.
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Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
2 June 2026
Bad teams are given mechanisms to recover, not lectures about bootstraps.
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Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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