Homer himself uses natural metaphors to ennoble violent human actors: Achilles is a wildfire sweeping across the Trojan plain.
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
Its main focus is ennobling the essence of lava as a driving force for innovation in a contemporary age, as well as celebrating its centuries-old Neapolitan craftsmanship that has led to the creation of scenographic spaces, settings and projects.
Others worry that Big Tech companies are using AI to enrich themselves at the expense of teachers’ jobs and students’ critical thinking development.
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Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
9 July 2025
The Bush and Trump tax cuts further enriched the top 0.1 percent, with the Trump-era Tax Cuts and Jobs Act directing 83 percent of its benefits to the top 1 percent by 2027.
Redford’s commitment to uplifting independent filmmakers through the festival and accompanying Sundance Institute Labs for the past 40-plus years has been unparalleled.
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Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
14 July 2025
Officials emphasized that the renaming was more about uplifting local figures who shaped civil rights history.
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