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How Not to Buy a Timeshare
Very early in my first marriage—I’m talking four or five days—I lay on a lounge chair on the white, powdery sand of an island paradise and took stock of my problems. First off, in that short time I’d already managed to lose both a piece of precious heirloom jewelry that my new mother-in-law had given me and also my new husband’s lucky Mets cap, which I’d left at a bar one island over. He’d taken both of these losses
The Books Briefing: Akiko Busch
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Almost as soon as printing became widespread, books began serving as teaching tools. Just consider one of the 16th century’s best sellers, Il Galateo, Overo de’ Costumi, a primer on proper social comportment (example: A person should not sniff at their food or drink; “the reason is that from his nose could fall those things