My wife and I are vacationing at my family’s house on the Pamlico River near Bath, North Carolina, a coastal farming town of several hundred people, where Blackbeard supposedly anchored ship on a regular basis and buried treasures. It takes a dirt road to make it to our house.
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, we show you how a well-chosen nickname can bend your mate’s will.
* Pulling support for Syria, Saudi Arabia may doom the regime, prove ability to make or break others. * Unlike London, schools burned in Paris—both "dancing on volcano" of social injustice. * Never has the world economy depended so much on the success of developing nations. * Germans aren't
* The weight discrimination we observe in the labor market has its source in...the marriage market. * Anticipating a marriage, let the word games begin. * A brief story by Lionel Shriver about housing and marriage. * Erica Heller—who's never read Catch-22—and others write about life as the
In the 1989 movie Say Anything…, someone tells our brokenhearted hero, “All you gotta do is find a girl that looks exactly like her, nail her, and dump her.” Except I usually don’t do any of that. I just feel the flutter in my heart, and wonder why this
Sisters are like ships—passing in the night, traveling as allies, or attacking one another with every gun and cannon. Sisterhood, however, is ultimately about unity.
* East Africa famine yet to peak, hundreds of thousands of people face starvation. * State Dept. indirectly intervenes in Somalia, financing mercenaries to train troops. * EDIT CONPLAN 3502 is the U.S. military's plan for assisting state and local authorities in the event of a riot. * Polish, Turkish, Somalian,
* An environmental group finds the Hudson is "chronically sewage-laden" around Albany. * A Hill lobbyist asks: How can I professionally lobby someone I personally rejected? * Study: People in unfriendly working situations more likely to die early. * When you leave the relative safety of the middle class, you might
I recently got my first tattoo. It was very exciting.
Fortunetelling is easy to ridicule, frequently misunderstood, and, for some people, extremely powerful. Unfortunately, what’s very tough to predict is what reading futures will do to the person with the cards.
