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Losing Goodall and the visibility she brought was a blow, but the students were eager to act.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Likewise, Epstein saw #MeToo as a problem to be neutralized because the success of any social movement in which women were treated as reliable narrators of their own exploitation would impede his own racket.”

From Salon • May 23, 2026

Why wait months to release a report that looks as if it were whipped up by a high school freshman an hour before deadline?

From Slate • May 23, 2026

“How amazing and timely and absolutely wonderful that they were able to come and actively participate in this healing,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Before long she had twenty plate-sized pieces for the party, while steadily keeping up with the orders that were pouring in.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith