Your guide for choosing gifts
February 4, 2010
With a certain divine comic flair, Roman Catholic bishops declared this week that the dying are being given too much sedation. By overmedicating the terminally ill, they say, we remove from them the opportunity for a “good death”
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One in three of us is going to join Terry Pratchett in mental disintegration
February 4, 2010
What tangled webs of deception have been revealed in recent days. From the Chilcot inquiry, to the debate over climate science and the sexual behaviour of the England football captain, nothing is quite as it seemed, it seems.
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To be deceived, first you must deceive yourself
February 4, 2010
Anthony Trollope remarked that we can say what we like about the Americans but we should never, ever, suppose them stupid. I thought of that during an outing to the cinema last week.
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Take a tart satire then add lashings of sugar
February 4, 2010
The most important statements are often those that are left unsaid. Among the millions of words spoken at last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the comment that nobody quite dared to utter was clear
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We need a new capitalism to take on China
February 3, 2010
Regarding Leonard Pitts Jr.’s Jan. 25 column on military gun sights inscribed with Scripture references, I am not certain I could authoritatively argue the first of his six points in his latest diatribe against what makes this (his?) country truly the greatest the world has ever known, nor would I waste my time.
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Pitts misses mark on gun sights column
February 3, 2010
How to request for money instead of gifts on my friends sons birthday invitation and not sound tacky.? – first birthday invitation with request for money gifts . All friends of my son wants for his birthday is a Wii game
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First Birthday Invitation With Request For Money Gifts How To …
February 3, 2010
I’m going to go ahead and blame the decline in frequency in my posting on the awesome birthday gifts I received about two weeks ago. Here are a few pictures of the lovely distractions that have eaten up the past two weeks: …
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Mind Grapes: Amazing birthday gifts make great distractions
February 3, 2010
The decision made by Ellis and his sisters to donate their birthday gifts to “The Home” was a living example of the Biblical principle set forth in James 1:27: “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the …
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February 3, 2010
Associated Press After the president recently delivered the State of the Union address , I considered my own family’s budget and financial affairs. Along with becoming a new parent, I had thought it would be a good idea to become a new sort of spender, one that would only make necessary and within-budget purchases.
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The State of My Family’s Financial Union: Burdened by Credit-Card Debt
February 3, 2010
Today The Sims franchise celebrates their 10th birthday . The Sims may be all about virtual living, but over the last ten years, The Sims has put up some very REAL numbers. For example, over the last decade The Sims game titles have …
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Gift Idea: The Sims Prize Pack | Happy Birthday to The Sims …
February 3, 2010
There are times when human rights become human wrongs. This happens when rights become more than a defence of human dignity, which is their proper sphere, and become instead a political ideology, relentlessly trampling down everything in their path. This is happening increasingly in Britain, and it is why the Pope’s protest against the Equality Bill, whether we agree with it or not, should be taken seriously
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The Pope is right about the threat to freedom
February 3, 2010
An unsuccessful hedge fund chum phones to propose a career change. As a daring international jewel thief, he explains, he would be among the very few foreigners to make any decent money in Tokyo.
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Cunning plan to become stinking rich
February 3, 2010
It started with a bruise the size of a shrivelled raisin that slowly grew into a magenta plum. It was Sunday evening, our baby was sleepy as we lifted him out of the bath and I noticed the mark under his tummy button. But he’d been running round London Zoo with his brothers and sister and I thought he must have knocked himself as he raced from the gorillas to the flamingos.
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Failing out-of-hours care almost killed my baby
February 3, 2010
On May 13, 1940, shortly after lunch, Neville Chamberlain entered the House of Commons to be greeted by a massive ovation. Order papers were waved, MPs shouted, MPs cheered. And shortly afterwards the Prime Minister followed him.
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Remember Churchill when you think of Iraq
February 2, 2010
Associated Press There is a growing movement to change alimony laws in divorce. As we recently wrote, women now make up almost half of the American work force and a growing number of women are becoming their families’ primary breadwinners . But while the economics of marriage have undergone major transformations, the economics of divorce haven’t kept up
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As Women Earn More, Alimony Laws Lag Behind
February 2, 2010
There are many ways you can find yourself slipping the moorings of cultural comprehension as you burrow deeper into middle age. Technology is the obvious one. Twitter: how does it work
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The stars of the future – we name names
February 2, 2010
Footballers are not entirely like the rest of us. Yesterday, in a Sky interview, the former England forward, Steve Bull, was talking about the former England goalkeeper, Bert Williams, who celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday. “If I get to half that age,” said Bull, “I’ll be happy.” It turns out that Bull will be 45 on March 28.
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The peculiar urge to sack the England captain
February 2, 2010
‘I feel as if I’m carrying a Ming vase across a very slippery floor,” a Shadow Cabinet minister told me recently. “I’m terrified I’m the one who’s going to drop it.” It was a metaphor first used by Roy Jenkins to describe Tony Blair in the run-up to the 1997 election but it now applies to David Cameron as well, as the country prepares to go to the polls again.
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Tories should be most afraid of their own fear
February 1, 2010
iStockphoto This weekend, each of the two times I sat down at my laptop to write this Juggle post, I had the best of intentions to bang it out in a few short minutes and move on to some other productive pursuit. Instead, each time I whiled away an embarrassingly long time playing word games on Facebook .
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Ways to Stop Wasting Time Online
February 1, 2010
Most men and women agree that opportunities to get hired at the junior level are the same regardless of gender for equally qualified candidates, a new survey shows. But when it comes to attaining senior leadership positions, men have a much rosier view than women that hiring is indeed gender neutral
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Is Workplace Advancement Gender Neutral? Men and Women Disagree