Evening light spills across the pollinator gardens—alive with bees, hummingbirds, and the occasional wandering chicken—before dissolving into the shimmer of the Mackinac Bridge.
Its people — tough, creative, generous, and endlessly ambitious — deserve leadership that matches their spirit.
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John Foley,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
Then, in February, the 10-day Carnival fills the streets with music, parades, and inventive costumes featuring giant handmade masks that represent fearsome creatures, which scare away winter spirits, or joyful beings celebrating their retreat, dating back to ancient pagan customs.
In law—if not yet in fact, as the Union Army had only begun its work of sweeping the South clean—some three million souls who had gone to sleep enslaved the day before would wake up the next day as free men, women, and children.
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Akhil Reed Amar,
Time,
22 Sep. 2025
Burney grew up working class in Baltimore, endured his father’s fits of rage, pulled shifts at soul-crushing jobs to support his daughter, and lost sight in one eye from injuries in a car accident.
And for better or worse, practitioners have always stood at the ready, prepared to intervene when our chakras seemed blocked; when our humors seemed unbalanced; when our meridians surely became constricted; when our orgone levels were all out of whack.
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Ashley Fetters Maloy,
Washington Post,
10 July 2023
And then there was orgone, discovered, or imagined, by Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian psychoanalyst and fallen Freudian.
Before, players could at least guess at the nature of a game, as each suit represented a different kind of competition.
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Kayti Burt,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
Colorado's commitment to accessibility From jeep tours in Cañon City that offer American Sign Language to the Colorado Trail Explorer mobile app detailing accessible trails, Colorado offers a multitude of ways for travelers with disabilities to explore the stunning nature for which it's known.
Nightly entertainment, including magic shows and live music, brings energy to the evenings.
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Allison Tibaldi,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
Rebecca Hall plays Rosenkrantz and Ben Whishaw plays Hujar, who offers a detailed account of his previous day’s activity, involving such idiosyncratic eminences as Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg—and the sorts of gamesmanship and intimate tensions that ensnare and frustrate artistic energies.
Our foul, flatulent father-figure may exaggerate a bit when belittling his enemies (and friends, for that matter), but cloaked under his aura of filth — like an adult Pig-Pen’s toxic dust cloud — rests a core truth.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
24 Sep. 2025
Dodging its attacks against the trainers is paramount, as is collecting aura that can power up your own Pokémon to do their own temporary Mega Evolutions.
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