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Sylvia Bloom worked for 67 years as a secretary at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and accumulated a personal fortune of more than $9 million. Bloom did this by being "frugal" and "by shrewdly observing the investments made by the lawyers she served,"
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President Donald Trump deserves more credit than he has gotten for at least one thing — outlasting his critics' prediction of the length of his tenure. In a post-election column published in the November 11, 2016 New York Times, David Brooks wrote, "the guy will probably resign or be
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Some self-described socialist candidates running within the Democratic Party "advocate more extreme changes, such as abolishing the prison system," the New York Times reports. Sure enough, the Boston Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has a "Prison Abolition Working Group" that meets monthly. The national
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Hundreds of paddlers recently raced kayaks, canoes, and stand-up paddleboards in the Charles River for the annual Run of the Charles. That the water quality in the river has dramatically improved over the 36 years since the race first began is a tribute to the non-profit group that organizes the
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has "doubled down" on his call for increased government regulation of Facebook, Recode reports, teasing an interview with Cook that aired Friday, April 6 on MSNBC. Cook had already publicly called for a government crackdown on Facebook once before, telling an audience in Beijing,
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Facebook has taken out full-page print newspaper ads for its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to say that he is "sorry" for allowing a leak of customer data. It's a case of the medium being more important than the message.
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It's not just President Donald Trump who thinks "fake news" is a problem. Even the Washington Post's Bob Woodward is warning that some reporters are becoming "emotionally unhinged" covering President Trump and crossing over into a "tone of ridicule."
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Give Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams the Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.