The professors were bitter and angry—angry at a university, a state, and a country where their fields of study were regarded as obsolete, useful only for padding the schedules of STEM students or as a backstop for STEM burnouts.
—
Ann Manov,
Harpers Magazine,
30 June 2026
Perhaps this isn’t new—Star Wars has been taking small moments from the original trilogy and padding them out for decades now—almost everything seen on screen in those first three films has been resurrected, fleshed out with backstories and unnecessary details.
Initially, both teams looked to be treading carefully, wary of a misstep now in the knockout stage.
—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
30 June 2026
By treading lightly with finishes, opening up the loft area to more light, and getting clever with storage, Marie channeled the unit’s coastal locale, conjuring up an aesthetic lexicon that suggests the interior of a boat with its clean, functional lines.
—
Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar,
Architectural Digest,
23 June 2026
For more than a century, no visit to New York at Christmas felt complete without stepping inside FAO Schwarz.
—
Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
With the majority of his players stepping onto a college campus for the first time, Turgeon knows the identity of this year’s team is still taking shape.
—
Christian Marshall,
Kansas City Star,
29 June 2026
After countless date nights spent wandering Costco aisles during executive member hours and dining on food-court pizza and hot dogs, Beth and Alec Harwerth decided there was no better location for their engagement photos.
—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
27 June 2026
In Corfu, days were spent hiking to the island's best beaches, wandering through pastel old-town streets, and stopping for long lunches in mountain villages.
The visuals of fighters warming up inside the White House and sauntering down the Truman balcony, many wrapped in the American flag, was an unusual spectacle indeed.
—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
Kane somehow manages to be a masterful playmaker and deadly striker at the same time, dropping deep to dictate the tempo of a game or spray a 50-yard pass, before sauntering into the box to top up that goal tally.
—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
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