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See suburban artists at work when Wizard World returns to RosemontAug 18, 2019 7:00 am - Celebrity guests, clever costumes and T-shirt towers have become the signature trappings of entertainment conventions like Wizard World Chicago, which returns Thursday, ...
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New law bans salary questions in job interviews. What to say if you're asked anyway.Aug 18, 2019 6:18 am - It's the interview question job candidates love to hate: What's your salary history? The good news is that in a growing number of states and cities, that question is now...
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Wife moved for husband's exciting career, but her own new job is uninspiringAug 18, 2019 6:00 am - Q: I moved to a new state some months ago after my husband got an exciting job offer. After a couple of weeks, I also got a job in my field. The problem is that I've bee...
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Deadlocked over deadboltsAug 18, 2019 6:00 am - Q. The people who are buying my house hired a home inspector, and one of his recommendations strikes me as unreasonable. I have double-cylinder deadbolts on my front and...
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Son, wife reject our 'circus-like' family gatheringsAug 18, 2019 6:00 am - Q. My oldest son has informed me he is finished with family gatherings "like a circus" and only wants to visit my husband and me in the future. The "circus" consists of ...
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Cantlay looking ahead to final FedEx Cup Playoff eventAug 18, 2019 1:01 am - Patrick Cantlay had his best round of the week on Sunday, shooting a 7-under-par 65. Only Hideki Matsuyama (63) did better. Neither could overhaul Justin Thomas at Medin...
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Stage is set for Justin Thomas after winning BMWAug 18, 2019 1:01 am - Record scores were the story after each of the first three rounds of the BMW Championship at Medinah. Not so in Sunday's final round, however. While Justin Thomas came o...
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Rozner: Was this Tiger's last shot in Chicago?Aug 18, 2019 1:00 am - With only minutes remaining in Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals in Utah, the press room under the bowl at Delta Center was packed with writers on deadline. That's when it o...
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The significance of the 'backyard war' brewing with ChinaAug 18, 2019 1:00 am - In my July 4 op-ed for the Daily Herald, I introduced the concept of "backyard wars" as limited but violent expressions of ongoing rivalries between great powers. I obse...
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The emotional resonance of 'Amazing Grace'Aug 18, 2019 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson The concert film "Amazing Grace" accomplishes something I thought impossible - capturing the Holy Ghost on celluloid. Over two days in 1972, director ...