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The peak can be tackled from both Nepal and the northern face in Tibet, but Chinese authorities have closed the latter route this year.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
They included Good Afternoon and Afternoon Plus, the latter of which featured among other things the first TV appearances by Dame Mary Berry, who was then cookery editor of Home and Freezer Digest.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
The relative returns since last Sept. 30 for private equity and private credit are consistent with the former suffering more than the latter, as you can see from the accompanying table.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
Because expensive memory chips are also part of the latter package, he noted that the $20 billion estimate might not be all it seems on the surface.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
Without saying a word he handed them, along with the little gold fish, to the wise Catalonian and the latter examined them, his eyelids contracting like two clams.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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