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A 28-year-old White House lawyer named John Roberts—now the chief justice of the Supreme Court—wrote a memo for his bosses that agreed in part with the Carter administration position.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
But if you feel that you must, make sure you don’t lend more than you can afford to part with.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
In 2024, Palantir — founded in part with CIA seed funding and built from the start around government intelligence work — stepped into the space Google vacated.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Four independent stores are currently taking part, with a further 11 expected to join in the coming weeks.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Some way down they found a few gnarled and stunted trees, the first they had seen for days: twisted birch for the most part, with here and there a fir-tree.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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