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Grammar Moses: If a rampage is an incident, what's a holocaust?Jul 31, 2016 7:00 am - Last week at least 19 people were killed and 26 were injured at a facility for people with disabilities near Tokyo. Authorities say the assailant was a man with a knife ...
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Leave during open house; you'd be a distractionJul 31, 2016 6:00 am - Q. Our Realtor listed our house two weeks ago and now she is planning to have an open house next weekend. She has asked us to leave the house and go somewhere for those ...
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Main carpet's high pile creates problem for smaller rugsJul 31, 2016 6:00 am - Q. I have wall-to-wall carpet with scatter rugs on top. My problem is even though I have tried carpet tape and pads to keep them from moving, the rugs do not stay in pla...
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Professional can teach you to set family boundariesJul 31, 2016 6:00 am - Q. My adult brother is in rehab for the second time in two years. My mother is understandably upset and wants to talk about it every day. She is in her 70s and hasn't to...
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Not a Democrat, but certainly not a RepublicanJul 31, 2016 1:00 am - By Kathleen Parker PHILADELPHIA - A longtime Republican friend texted just as the Democratic National Convention was burying itself in balloons: "I'm sorry," she said,...
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It's Clinton, not Trump, who's replaying the Nixon scenarioJul 31, 2016 1:00 am - In Philadelphia, Hillary Clinton faced three separate goals: 1. She needed the convention to tread the political needle to soothe Bernie Sanders delegates hurt feelings;...
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When folding money goes, gold and silver will have trouble, tooJul 31, 2016 1:00 am - Q: I have a question about gold and silver. In the event of a catastrophic economic collapse, where can I sell my gold and silver? Surely, banks will have crumbled and p...
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Too much to do? Lists, schedules can boost productivityJul 31, 2016 1:00 am - If today is Monday. Brian Basilico is working on his blog, podcast and other ways to market the services he sells. Monday is marketing Monday. Tomorrow is training Tuesd...
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Are they short-timers or two-timers?Jul 31, 2016 1:00 am - Q: We hired an associate who, after only two months, informed me that she would be leaving in another three months for graduate school. I appreciate her informing me now...
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Job placement executive designed sculpture displayed at Good ShepherdJul 31, 2016 1:00 am - Russell Riendeau of Barrington, executive the vice president of Jobplex, an executive search firm in Chicago, said his most creative period has been in the last six year...