Yet, even for those long-ensconced in homes, the calming tones continue to be both popular and practical.
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R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
Set the scene Peacefully ensconced, what feels like a mere baguette’s toss from the maze of ’36 streets’ that comprise the Old Quarter, Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi has been a fixture in the heart of Hanoi since 1901.
On 2 March 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African- American high-school student, boarded a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, taking a window seat.
For several months in 2025, activists from the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT) camped outside of the houses of various Condé Nast editors’ homes, and protested at the New York retail outpost of American Girl, which is owned by Mattel, whose board members include Condé CEO Roger Lynch.
—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
23 Jan. 2026
Reynolds said more than 100 tiny homes placed on the campus for veterans who had camped on nearby San Vicente Boulevard have proved to be difficult for those using wheelchairs and walkers, are subject to fire and are not suitable for stays that can drag on for months.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
Under pressure from the European Union, Luxembourg’s secrecy is now being whittled away with the publication of corporate records revealing once-private information on companies domiciled in the country.
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Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
Lithium Americas trades on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE but is incorporated and domiciled in Canada.
Close-quartered and stylish, the movie begins at a Gothic New England mansion where the wealthy patriarch Harlan Thrombey has been found with his throat slit.
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Anna Russell,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
In the old days beggars were drawn and quartered in that square.
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