Articles filed under Washington Post
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Book review: In Elisabeth Thomas' 'Catherine House,' an exclusive university harbors sinister secretsMay 24, 2020 7:27 am - "Catherine House" by Elisabeth Thomas (Custom House) Houses can be welcoming or forbidding; they might express their owners or oppress them. Sometimes th...
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The surprising reasons these Midwest states are the last bastion of retirement plansMay 24, 2020 6:13 am - The heyday of U.S. employer-provided retirement plans, 1999 to 2002, feels like a bygone era. Americans were worried about Y2K and Dick Cheney, and the first millennials...
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My boss is tired of me bringing my child to workMay 24, 2020 6:10 am - Q: I am a single mom with no family living nearby. At my job, I have to receive deliveries and mail and take calls, so there is no work I can do from home. Since schools...
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The pandemic is changing every aspect of shopping: From store layouts to how jeans are foldedMay 24, 2020 6:00 am - Tiara Show went to the mall last week in search of summer clothes - and a distraction from the pandemic that has kept her homebound since March. But there were coronavir...
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Analysis: Work from home is fine ... for nowMay 24, 2020 6:00 am - There are reasons to be optimistic about corporate America getting more comfortable with work-from-home arrangements brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Workers gain...
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'Homecoming' returns to Amazon Prime - and it lacks more than Julia RobertsMay 23, 2020 7:28 am - Strangely enough, I've pretty much forgotten why I praised Amazon Prime's "Homecoming" so highly when it premiered in late 2018. I remember that Julia Roberts was in it....
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Overlooked tasks beyond typical spring cleaningMay 23, 2020 7:00 am - Late March and early May for the past 25 years or so, I have written articles and done television segments in which I give advice and instruction on how to spring-clean,...
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How to handle plumbing and other services during a pandemicMay 23, 2020 7:00 am - Routines have been upended as the world reels from the coronavirus pandemic. Gatherings are canceled, businesses are shuttered and people are encouraged to stay home as ...
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The great video chat faceoff: Six apps. Dozens of heads. One came out on top.May 23, 2020 6:25 am - To Zoom, or not to Zoom? That is the question. Zoom videoconferencing's Brady Bunch grid of faces has become synonymous with working, learning and even partying from hom...
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The hunt for a work-from-home webcam: A story of broken supply chains, 'sold-out' messages and refreshing online cartsMay 23, 2020 6:22 am - SAN FRANCISCO - All those hours of pandemic-induced video conference calls, chats with family and hangouts with friends are straining our eyes - and, apparently, straini...