Reams of barbed wire gathered from the fields around Penpont were fashioned into a mesh curtain whose ends wrapped around two columns at the top of the museum’s grand staircase; the result was both alluring and forbidding.
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Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
As for Celebrini, the youngest player on the team, his skill and cerebral 200-foot game should, in theory, mesh well with McDavid.
While civilians surf the world wide web like an information superhighway, one prominent lawyer compared inmates’ internet access to a one-lane dirt road.
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Andrew Zucker,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Feb. 2026
Nirvanna the Band the Show, which ran as a web series from 2007 to 2010 and then as a sitcom from 2017 to 2018 on Viceland, was not known for its stunts.
The 101-unit apartment complex on Pine Street was built for homeless and low-income individuals and received public funding for its construction.
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John Ramos,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
Developers have multiple projects in the pipeline in Hood County, including a 2,600-acre data center complex called Comanche Circle that has triggered a tsunami of opposition from ranchers, landowners and conservationists near Glen Rose.
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Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Feb. 2026
But those of us who followed the whole will always remember it.
—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
9 Feb. 2026
Seattle’s assimilation of so many players that had previously been underestimated or counted out or pigeonholed, though — starting with former Jets first-round quarterback Sam Darnold — into such a dominant whole is rare.
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