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The president has a long record of dishonesty, about his own biography (which blew up his first presidential campaign in 1988) and especially about the family influence-peddling business that was at the root of Hunter’s tax evasion.
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Rich Lowry, Boston Herald, 4 Dec. 2024
The president has a long record of dishonesty, about his own biography (which blew up his first presidential campaign in 1988) and especially about the family influence-peddling business that was at the root of Hunter’s tax ...
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 3 Dec. 2024
Now a new theory has been put forward: That our evolutionary loss of body hair is at the root of this behavior's origins and how it's changed over the hundreds of thousands of years of human existence.
—New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
Hormonal fluctuations Hormonal fluctuations, as well as thyroid problems, can therefore be at the root of morning anxieties.
—Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2024
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Rich Lowry, Boston Herald, 4 Dec. 2024
The president has a long record of dishonesty, about his own biography (which blew up his first presidential campaign in 1988) and especially about the family influence-peddling business that was at the root of Hunter’s tax ...
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 3 Dec. 2024
Now a new theory has been put forward: That our evolutionary loss of body hair is at the root of this behavior's origins and how it's changed over the hundreds of thousands of years of human existence.
—New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
Hormonal fluctuations Hormonal fluctuations, as well as thyroid problems, can therefore be at the root of morning anxieties.
—Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2024
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