Before becoming America’s most infamous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a magnetic actor who was beloved by audiences and courted by critics.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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By creating a type O kidney, they hope to make more organs available for transplant.
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We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.
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You want your baby’s name to be unique, but so does everyone else.
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After 70 years, “The Power of Positive Thinking” remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
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