The adviser persuaded Hanes to invest a few thousand dollars in an online cryptocurrency-trading platform, which generated impressive returns.
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The Week UK,
TheWeek,
12 Apr. 2026
People can be persuaded that community action should trump individual choice if a behavior, such as smoking cigarettes or driving while drunk, harms others who don’t engage in it.
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Marie Helweg-Larsen,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2026
In an industry often seduced by scale and swagger, Claire offers something far more enduring.
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Julie Lin,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Apr. 2026
In the film Queen Kelly, produced in 1928-1929, a convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince betrothed to a mad queen, an event that drastically changes the course of her life.
While some of the women who came here willingly embraced ISIS ideology and passed it on to their children, many others say they were trafficked or lured to the region through ignorance or under false pretenses.
As Dead City grow beyond the outlaw punk scene, the entertainment industry is enticed yet wary of this genuinely divisive and chaotic band.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Apr. 2026
More than half of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in such plans, enticed by lower monthly premiums and extra benefits not covered by traditional Medicare, according to health policy research firm KFF.
Taxpayers’ expense for these machines could run into many millions, yet more counties are beguiled by the technology.
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Phyllis Tashlik,
New York Daily News,
15 Apr. 2026
Renee Nicole Good was a pawn of leftist politicians and activists who beguiled her into believing that ICE officers are the bad guys and that there is virtue in attacking them, breaking the law and resisting arrest.
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