But the demonstrations are diffuse and largely leaderless, and Pezeshkian’s efforts at mediation — and the killings and arrests by security forces — have not persuaded the protesters to stay off the streets.
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Henry Austin,
NBC news,
7 Jan. 2026
The paintings worked because viewers did not need to be persuaded that these scenes mattered.
Released in 1994, Sátántangó (based on László Krasznahorka’s novel) chronicled an impoverished Hungarian village that becomes seduced by a would-be prophet who has seemingly come back from the dead.
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Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
6 Jan. 2026
This year, we were seduced by silver trays and a new take on the TV-dinner table.
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Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
26 Dec. 2025
Neuralink recently lured a top official away from the Food and Drug Administration office that regulates the company, a poaching that has surprised, impressed, and infuriated its competitors in a fledgling industry developing brain-computer interfaces.
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O. Rose Broderick,
STAT,
5 Jan. 2026
Based on Diana Gabaldon’s book series, Outlander has lured audiences with its sweeping historical fantasy and once-in-a-lifetime(s) love story.
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James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Jan. 2026
Many younger visitors have been enticed to visit the town thanks to its arts offerings, with rising numbers making the pilgrimage to the Frieder Burda Museum to take in its temporary exhibitions.
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CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Jan. 2026
These everyday investors are likely also enticed by Karp, who Luria said is similar to Tesla CEO Elon Musk in his ability to sell a business vision.
In the five years just before war set in, these were among the dwellings that had beguiled Heinz Gaube (1940–2022), a German academic at the Oriental Seminar of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
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