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...after one of our notoriously long conversations, she had an idea for me, “You know, Nicole,” she said. “You should really start an advice column. You have something to say.” I, of course, immediately laughed it off. Who am I to provide advice to others? How can I help others when I even have trouble solving my own problems...
...introduce to you, Nikki. And this is what I promise: In this column I will be a straight-talker. I won’t give you what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. This column is for you. Not so that you can enshrine my advice as gospel, but so that you can get an honest opinion. Feel free to agree with it. Or disagree with it. But, at the very least, reflect...
Mitch Albom, who has made grown men cry--and made a bundle of moolah--with such earnest fare as The Five People You Meet in Heaven, is in publishing purgatory. In his column in the Detroit Free Press, he wrote of two ex-Michigan State basketballers cheering at their alma mater's Final Four game. Trouble is, they weren't there. Albom filed his column before the game even started. He apologized, and his paper promised an investigation. Uh-oh. What if he really spent his Wednesdays with Morrie...
Thomas Friedman can be hard to take. Readers of his foreign-affairs column in the New York Times have come to tolerate Friedman's annoyingly omniscient, conspicuously corny style because of his flair for addressing dizzying global conundrums with common sense. But Friedman's bravado has been sapped by Iraq: his attempts to distance himself from the Bush Administration's handling of a war he supported has forced him into some painful intellectual contortions...
...what do the captains think will help the team add to the wins column...