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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Essaying Your Way Into B-School

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I was fortunate in that, when I applied to business school in the way back of 1978, people pretty much wrote their own application essays. ...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire

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On the day after The Station nightclub fire, in February 2003, I was having lunch with my brother and his then-five year old daughter.  Car...
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Monday, October 08, 2012

The Selling of Generation I

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With two teen-aged nieces, iPhone-carrying members of Generation I, I’m used to the natural way in which the “young folks” pick up any elect...
Friday, October 05, 2012

Granted, I’m no genius…still I can’t help but be a bit disappointed

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Once again, I an interested to see who the MacArthur Fellows are for the year. Not that I was expecting one – I don’t imagine that many of...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

Talk about an accident looking for a place to happen

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As it happens, I very much like swinging. (No, not that kind of swinging. Swinging-swinging.) Oh, I haven’t done it in years, but I did s...
Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Bagel head? Bagel head! What would Abbott and Costello say about this?

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The other day, I caught, in passing, a news story on a thief who stole a woman’s wallet – but was quickly apprehended after the victim was a...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Bad, bad, bad, bad vibrations

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I was surprised to see a recent article about Brian Wilson and Al Jardine getting fired from the Beach Boys. (Admittedly, part of my surpris...
Monday, October 01, 2012

Football, football, rah! rah! rah! (The boys are back in town.)

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Well, the Great National Crisis is over. The long, dark night of the American football fan soul has ended. The replacement football refs, th...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Who am I?

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I have a couple of ancestry-related items on my bucket list. I’d like to do one of those cheek-swab DNA things at some point, mostly to f...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Pre-peeled bananas? That’s one unappealing idea.

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One of my high school friends was famous for the over-packaged lunches that her somewhat eccentric mother used to pack for her. The packagin...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The world’s smallest violin now plays for Dietmar Machold

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The U.S. of A. has had its share of Bernie Madoffs over the years, but I guess in Europe they go in for more high-brow swindles. Such is t...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Fight fiercely, Harvard Club waitstaff

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Back in my college waitressing days, I worked a couple of shifts at the Harvard Club of Boston. It was not a regular gig, but I had a frie...
Monday, September 24, 2012

How do you like them Apples?

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Other than those iPhone and iPad users who “upgraded” to iOS6, or the millions of fanatics who queued for iPhone 5 (and attempted to navigat...
Friday, September 21, 2012

Hats off to Buckey!

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My mother collected salt and pepper shakers. Sort of. Mostly she accumulated them so that there would always be something inexpensive that h...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Full El Monte

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It’s been a tough year for lifeguards. First, there was the young man in Florida who was fired because he made the bad decision to save th...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Attention young folks: have you considered nursing school?

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Maybe I’m just being a bit oversensitive here, but if there are three words I don’t like to see strung together in a headline, they’re aging...