You have a large what?Getting off a rush-hour train the other day I overheard a woman behind me say into her cell phone, quite clearly…
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"If you're poor, stop being poor."Aasif Mandvi closing in a crumbleJust so were the words of Todd Wilemon, Managing Director of NYSE Euronext, speaking with…
The keynote speaker at a recent conference I attended was Adam L. Saenz, a compelling speaker and author of The Power of a Teacher: Restoring Hope…
Photographer Henry Hargreaves recently put together a series of photos of last meals by famous and infamous murderers, and it got me thinking.If I knew…
Would you please tell me what the dinky heck is with all the farting after 60?I've always farted, and so have you. We all fart.But…
If ever I was on The Actor's Studio, here's how I might answer Mr. Lipton's questions. Based, as he says, on Bernard Pivot's version of…
The Jefferson Memorial stands in quiet grandeur on the south side of the Tidal Basin, well away from Lincoln's and Washington's memorials. That distance, 0.896…
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I'm a lucky man. A lucky, lucky man. I discovered history before it was too late. When I was younger — much, much younger —…