Brand new Cole-Haan leather shoes, just my size: $5. Four matching framed prints of old Roman coins: $4. Ralph Lauren windowpane-checked three-button suit: $20. Waist-length mink coat: $32. Real pearl and rare stone necklace: $3.50. Hand-painted wine carafe imported from Israel: $2. Twinkie warmer circa 1983: $1.50. I’m talking thrift store here, as in Goodwill.
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In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, two towns 100 miles apart boast different names but nonetheless were named for the same person—though he never set foot in either one. The towns are Kipling and Rudyard, and the honored individual was Rudyard Kipling. A re-reading of a poem he first published 106 years ago is a good way to end
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Carrie Fisher once said her life could be summed up in a single sentence: “If my life weren’t funny, it would just be true.” At the heart of this sentence lies the reason I will miss Carrie Fisher: She was honest. The love of truth is a rare thing. T.S. Eliot and others have observed
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The development of the internet has completely transformed the way we do business; and the “oldest profession” is no exception. In a world of online chatrooms, webcam performers can market anything from conversation to explicit sex acts. And unlike pornography or prostitution, there are virtually no laws regulating this form of sex work. Webcamming is
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In her Friday column, Peggy Noonan traced the travels of Chris Arnade, a photographer who spent 2016 traversing the nation, taking pictures of struggling Americans along the way. (You’ll find his work in the Guardian and the Atlantic.) Noonan’s columns that probe American life tend to be insightful and poetic, and this one was no
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