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SAVILE — A BAD BILL MURRAY: You’ve probably seen the photos and heard the stories about the harmless fun generated by actor Bill Murray. The existential Murray makes a habit of generally …

Yesterday, an old and sick retired tool-and-die maker was arrested outside his home in a quiet Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood. The offense? Mass murder. Eighty-nine-year-old Johann “Hans” Breyer is being detained …

Even though, according to Gallup, Americans worry about saving for retirement than any other single financial issue, their words and deeds are not matching up. According to research by Merrill …

In a fascinating TED lecture delivered in October, 2009, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses what she calls “the danger of a single story.” She tells of her childhood reading …

The fuss about radio personality Casey Kasem’s death is probably astonishing to anyone under 40. In an age where local radio has become something programmed by a consultant thousands of …

Debt is a way of life for many Americans. We owe on our mortgage, our taxes, our car, a few credit cards, utilities, tuition — the list runs on and on, …

Years ago when I told a friend that I had married a woman with three children, he remarked “wow, that’s got to be tough. If I did that, I’d constantly …

You’ll read today about how House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his Republican primary election. The Christian Science Monitor is calling it one of the most shocking upsets in American …

Lots of people have a tough time of it in Kim Jong-un’s North Korea: farmers, laborers, prisoners, meteorologists, artisans, housewives. But especially meteorologists. This week, “Fatty the Third” took time out …

For hundreds of years, education worked well at the local schoolhouse. Children learned reading, writing, and arithmetic, and other subjects, under the watchful guidance of teachers from the community. Sure, there …