Okay, it’s another lemon, the second you’ve bought from the same used-car lot — and for $1,000 more than the first. The…

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Graduates of the class of 2007, close your eyes. No kidding. That’s my advice in a nutshell. Okay, take a last look…

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It had taken much thought and planning that wartime May Day four years ago when George W. Bush co-piloted an S-3B Viking…

My aunt Hilda, whose very name came from some other century, once told me her earliest memory: She was a little girl…

One night when I was in my teens, I found myself at a production of Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an…