Froma Harrop
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Wishing the worst for John EdwardsMay 04, 2012 5:00 am - John Edwards allegedly misused campaign money to cover a tawdry affair while posing lovey-dovey with his dying wife for the cameras. All this happened in 2008, as the fo...
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Education replaces housing as the bubble machineApr 27, 2012 1:00 am - A modern knowledge economy thrives on highly trained workers. The way to get them, obviously, is through education — from basic reading skills for some, to mastery of al...
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Dreaming of a new ‘norm’ for executive payApr 23, 2012 5:00 am - Lavishly paid executives have a new 1 percent number to ponder. It’s not about their perch on the top branch of U.S. incomes. It’s the lousy 1 percent rise in Citibank’s...
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Women, work, jobs and timeApr 18, 2012 11:18 am - To quote “Adelaide’s Lament” from “Guys and Dolls,” “You can feed her all day with the vitamin A and the bromofizz/ But the medicine never gets anywhere near where the t...
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Why good factory jobs go beggingApr 12, 2012 10:43 am - Animal rescue once sent me a fabulous mutt. She was usually obedient and heartbreaking in eagerness to please. But I couldn’t get her into the basement. I’d go down the ...
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The car the right wing can’t killApr 10, 2012 5:00 am - Imagine that. Former Republican President George H.W. Bush recently bought his son Neil a Chevrolet Volt as a birthday present. This is the car that all right-thinking r...
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Does Romney Have a Home?Apr 03, 2012 5:00 am - Mitt Romney has three houses. The former Massachusetts governor would like to do a $12 million “fix-up” on one of them, a beachfront property in La Jolla, Calif. The pla...
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Whether Obamacare wins or loses, Obama winsMar 30, 2012 5:00 am - Small wonder President Obama chose not to delay the U.S. Supreme Court case on his health care reforms until long after the election. His advisers are clearly in the lab...
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Sky not falling with Japanese birthratesMar 27, 2012 5:00 am - There's one complaint visitors to Tokyo rarely make, and that is “not enough people.” With a population of 36 million, the Tokyo metropolitan area stuffs an average 6,80...
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Rising gas prices don’t hurt like they used toMar 19, 2012 5:00 am - Here’s why I’m not panicked about rising gasoline prices, as many headlines suggest we all should be. It’s a personal story. Let me start at the beginning. The automotiv...