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Just weeks ago, from the foothills of the mountains Dezi Freeman had disappeared into months before, police told the world they "strongly" believed Australia's most wanted man was dead.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Chesterton was raised in a high-minded Unitarianism whose morals he approved but whose understanding of God he found too thin to support the changes that he, as a man of the left, wanted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Nana didn’t seem to mind that I went to Cuba; but she wanted to know if I met anyone handsome there.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The most dissenters from the rates policy was two, in July, and both wanted no more than an earlier quarter-point cut.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

So many now wanted to join us that we held a second service after evening roll call.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom