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Add it all together, and you’re left with perhaps the most fascinating and confounding player in the sport—the perfect distillation of everything that is beautiful and terribly wrong with the modern game.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Did growing up in DIY culture prepare you for the modern music industry, where you have to be self-sufficient with every aspect of your career?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
Spinning coal into the stuff of modern life is inherently less efficient than the conventional petrochemicals industry, and far more carbon-intensive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Should Allen win the world title, he will become the oldest first-time winner in the modern era, eclipsing Stuart Bingham, who became champion in 2015, aged 38 years and 343 days.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
He finished the pasty and took a position on Waverley Bridge, which connected the old part of the city and its medieval streets to the new, modern section.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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