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A couple of years ago Pierluigi Collina, Fifa's head of referees, was talking about added time and when it might be acceptable to cut it short.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
Noah Petro, head of NASA's planetary geology lab, told AFP that the Moon will look to the astronauts "about the size of a basketball held at arm's length."
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Neither of them made any substantive changes to core Roman Catholic doctrine, but when you’re the bishop of Rome and the head of the world’s largest single religious denomination, practice matters more than theory.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
May, 49, got his start as a head coach at Florida Atlantic University—a school with such shoddy basketball resources that he tried to avoid showing prospective recruits the locker room, or its lukewarm showers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
I squeeze my eyes shut and count and breathe, count and breathe, before I grab my phone and head out the door.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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