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Kim then got offered a full-time position with Dustin Johnson's 4Aces GC for the 2026 season when Patrick Reed suddenly quit to play on the DP World Tour.

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“We’ve got a great group,” added Laila Edwards, the first Black woman to play on the U.S. women’s team, and a beloved college hockey star at, well, do I have to even say?

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The title of Mr. Dikötter’s book is, of course, a play on Snow’s, whose effort is, “at heart, a romantic tale of Communists fighting in the hills for freedom.”

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“The rationale for our upgrade is that we believe Fastly is likely to represent an underappreciated play on the growth in both LLM use and agentic AI,” he added.

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"Very important. I think we dug deep, after only two days of rest. Then going to a difficult away game. We showed again how well we can play on the ball," Slot said.

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