Articles filed under Washington Post
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Beyond 'The Shining': Our favorite scary stories that take us inside unusual hauntingsOct 25, 2020 11:00 pm - As the leaves fall and pumpkins decorate porches, is there anything more Halloweeny than haunted houses? Literature is full of abodes fit for the creepy, from Shirley Ja...
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Sandra Oh celebrates Asian culture in film 'Over the Moon'Oct 25, 2020 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - Sandra Oh's role in the new animated feature "Over the Moon" may not be her largest, but it has deep meaning. The story is set in China and Oh voices the step...
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'The Undoing' is no 'Big Little Lies,' but Nicole Kidman fans probably won't mindOct 25, 2020 7:30 am - HBO's "The Undoing" is an elegant if somewhat drowsy whodunit, a six-part miniseries starring Nicole Kidman as yet another beautiful woman whose ideal world comes crashi...
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Lucky enough to have a pension? Low interest rates mean it may no longer guarantee a secure retirement.Oct 25, 2020 6:17 am - The Federal Reserve has done a lot to help keep our economy afloat. It has cut interest rates to unprecedented low levels, bought trillions of dollars of corporate IOUs,...
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One potential pandemic upside: Performance reviews are getting simplerOct 25, 2020 6:00 am - As the pandemic wore on this spring, Christine Carrillo, the chief executive of Butlr Health, a small online start-up that matches people with therapists, decided to pos...
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The risks and rewards of the covid career makeoverOct 25, 2020 6:00 am - Last March, as her final semester at Georgetown Law School was winding down, Madelle Kangha was feeling optimistic about the future. The 30-year-old would continue worki...
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I'm a first-responder and now, it seems, a COVID-19 'long-hauler'Oct 25, 2020 6:00 am - Q: I work for my state government as a first-responder, interacting daily with unmasked members of the public who would cough on me while showing symptoms. Despite havin...
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Book review: A brilliant glimpse of every lightsaber that mattersOct 24, 2020 7:28 am - "Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection" by Daniel Wallace; illustrated by Lukasz Liszko and Ryan Valle (Insight Editions) You never forget your first lightsaber. Whe...
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Choosing the suburbs over city life during the pandemicOct 24, 2020 6:25 am - For Scott and Cindy Anderson and their two children, virtual school and remote work provided an opportunity to make a big move from San Jose to Gig Harbor in Washington ...
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How does Google's monopoly hurt you? Try these searches.Oct 24, 2020 6:23 am - Let's Google together. Open a Web browser and search for T-shirts. I'll wait. Is the first thing you see a search result? I'm not talking about the stuff labeled Ads or ...