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Attentive readers of the newspapers this week may have noticed an odd coincidence. On Monday, the day before Independence Day, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby devoted his op-ed column to a stirring remembrance of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, many of whom are now forgotten to history. He reserved his highest praise for an obscure signer from New Jersey, John Hart. Read carefully: "[Hart] was forced to flee in the winter of 1776, at the age of 65, from his dying wife's bedside. While he hid in forests and caves, his home was demolished...
...Please advise Jeanne McDowell that when she reports Laura Schlessinger is a "psychotherapist," she is in error. Even Schlessinger herself, once you pin her to the mat, will admit she holds no degrees in psychotherapy, and is totally unqualified to do anything other than her true calling: lonely hearts columnist...
...course your columnist Michelle Slatalla was joking when she wrote about needing to talk with her 58-year-old mother about going into a nursing home [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR FAMILY, June 5]. While I admire Slatalla's concern for her parents, and agree that as one approaches 60 it is wise to make some long-term plans, I hardly think that 58 is the right age at which to talk about a retirement home unless there are some serious health concerns. In this era, when people are living to a healthy and ripe old age, Slatalla is jumping...
...there's such a thing as being fired vicariously, it happened to me last Wednesday. My former employer, the online magazine Salon www.salon.com) facing a severe revenue shortfall, axed 13 staff positions, including the media columnist--the job I held before coming to TIME last year. That a handful of writers were fired (EXTRA! SUN RISES IN EAST!) probably doesn't concern you much. But why they were fired should...
...Duty (Morrow; 295 pages; $25), the Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene goes back to Columbus to see his dying father, a highly decorated World War II infantry officer. In an effort to understand his dad and the men of his generation, Greene persuades his hometown's most renowned veteran, Tibbets, to finally break his silence...