FOREVER

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My younger daughter is married again, Sabrina Soto, the popular host of The High/Low Project and featured designer on HGTV, and a renowned interior designer, consultant, and entrepreneur. The second of our Cuban-American family was born in Miami, Florida, USA.
Sabrina learned about media from her father, who served at AP, NBC, VOA, Univision and others. Her mom was an interior decorator, with a home staging business.

BEAUTY & BRAINS

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She had beauty and brains, a great combination. Hedy Lamarr was far more than a Hollywood star. She was a pioneering inventor whose ideas helped lay the foundations for modern wireless technology. Her life bridges glamour, wartime innovation, scientific brilliance, and a legacy that took decades to be acknowledged.

HAPPY HOLIDAZE

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Ballots to billets? If Trump’s envoy to Moscow yields a revised peace agreement acceptable to Kyiv — and whether Ukraine, under pressure at home, agrees to any major concessions.

BEST GOP TEAM

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The very best Republican tag-team goes to a name you know and another you may not. Who was the most powerful VP ever to be.

AFD UP

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For over the past hundred years the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure has provided the intellectual framework and oversight mechanisms that define academic freedom in the United States. Its combination of policy leadership, investigative rigor, and moral authority makes it a foundational institution in American higher education. As pressures on universities continue to mount, the committee’s work remains vital to upholding the principles on which academic life depends.

BROKEN TRUST

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The “breakdown of trust” we witnessed this year was not a failure of enforcement.
It was a failure of design.
For decades we treated labels, stamps, and certificates as if they were reality itself.
In 2025, the world discovered the cost of that illusion.
But it also discovered the path forward:
Trust rooted not in symbols, but in the unforgeable details of the physical world.
The next era of global commerce won’t be built on proxies.
It will be built on truth embedded directly into the objects we depend on.

SABRITASH

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A healthy new salad that has swept the nation from coast to coast.

EAT-DRINK-BE MERRY

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EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY - The Oldest Establishment in Every State.
While it’s easy to get caught up in chasing holiday reservations, try one of these American establishments, some dating back to 1673.

SUSPICION

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And a state of mental uneasiness and uncertainty: POTUS DOUBTS SCOTUS?

NY DC MAN-DATE

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Was the desecration of the Oval Office decorated with the gaudy, tasteless decor that inhabits a real estate mind of Donald Trump the scene of a strange meeting between the mayor-elect of New York City and President Trump’s “be nice” to a spirit that looks exactly like a living person, or someone who looks exactly like someone else but who is not related?