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Dad couldn’t change bad attitude while visiting

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Dad couldn’t change bad attitude while visiting

Friday, October 27, 2023

DEAR HARRIETTE: I am a 23-yearold who just moved to San Francisco. My dad recently came to visit me, and I was excited because I hadn't seen him in six months. My excitement was dampened once he got here and had nothing positive to say, just complaints the entire time.

Complicated equation for Middle East

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Complicated equation for Middle East

Thursday, October 26, 2023

For all his personal eccentricity, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats said it best in his 1919 poem 'The Second Coming.' In the wake of Hamas' monstrous atrocity against Israeli civilians, it appears that 'the best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are filled with passionate intensity.

Student tries to balance friends and going out

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Student tries to balance friends and going out

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

DEAR HARRIETTE: As you probably know and have seen on TV, there is a lot of pressure for college students to go out every weekend, and sometimes even during the week. I used to go out a lot last year, and I met so many people by frequenting the same bar.

Revisiting Grenada, decades later

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Revisiting Grenada, decades later

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

ST. GEORGES, Grenada — Happy Thanksgiving Day. No turkey, no stuffing, no food coma. No family reunions. No legacy football games.

An early October surprise comes sooner

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An early October surprise comes sooner

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

As the violence in the Middle East escalates, attention has focused, and rightly so, on the devastating impact the conflict is having on innocent civilians across the region.But another major issue hovers just below the surface — oil.

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G’rokk’s family knew value of trust

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Trust is a valuable commodity these days and has been since the dawn of time.Caveman G’rokk had to have trust when he showed his neighbor T’rook how to make fire for the first time. He had to trust it would have been used as a tool and not lead to his untimely demise if used as a weapon.

GOP candidate: 2024 race is ‘stuck

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GOP candidate: 2024 race is ‘stuck’

Friday, October 20, 2023

An extraordinary document emerged from the 2024 Republican presidential race this week, and it isn't getting enough attention.

Hair stylist is amazing but has bad body odor

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Hair stylist is amazing but has bad body odor

Friday, October 20, 2023

DEAR HARRIETTE: I have been going to the same hair stylist for over a year. She does amazing work on my hair, and I have no interest in finding a new stylist anytime soon. However, every time I am around her, I cannot help but notice her bad body odor.

Maybe dementia, or maybe it was at birth

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Maybe dementia, or maybe it was at birth

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Let's keep it simple, shall we?If Donald Trump were your grandpa, you'd be having family meetings about how to protect him from himself. Assisted living? A nursing home? Or would it be necessary to have the old man confined to a psychiatric clinic?

Republican field starts to narrow

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Republican field starts to narrow

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

No longer can we say the 2024 presidential election is in the obscure far-off future. The Iowa caucuses are exactly three months away — and the first real phase of the contest is taking shape.