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Life planners, qualified ones at least, operate on a set of assumptions different from those of traditional number crunchers. Life planners believe that you need to do some soul-cleansing, trudge through the muck of self-examination, before you can build a money plan that will guide you through an emotionally and materially secure second half. So put down the calculator for a moment, they suggest, and start with some tender inquiries into why you're not getting your financial house in order. Could it be, say, that your shopaholism stems from a lack of, well, confidence? That you need...
...multifaceted and ambiguous, as are the men and women who wage them and the gods who watch them and chortle, and somehow that makes them mean more. A Feast for Crows isn't pretty elves against gnarly orcs. It's men and women slugging it out in the muck, for money and power and lust and love...
...Your Katrina photo-essay "Ghost Town" [Sept. 19] featured a reprehensible picture of a lifeless body floating facedown in the contaminated muck of New Orleans. That was disrespectful to the dead and their families. You may have intended to show readers the horrors of the aftermath of Katrina, but it was shock journalism. Michael Yonker Portland, Oregon...
...think what’s going to happen here, too, is that the field conditions will play a big part,” said Harvard coach Tim Murphy. “The field was relatively speaking destroyed last week...It’s going to be a muck-fest...
...said ‘Hey, here’s the deal, the field’s been destroyed, it’s been raining for 10 days, so we’re going to go out in the mud and we’re going to muck...