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  • How Working Moms Are Discovering They Can Homeschool

    How Working Moms Are Discovering They Can Homeschool0

    “I would love to homeschool my kids, but I have to work.” Homeschooling parents hear this statement all the time, sometimes during casual conversations about various education options, or more often, when a friend or stranger confides that schooling isn’t working so well. I’m not going to lie, homeschooling requires a lot of effort, presence,

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  • Is New York City Entering a Pension Death Spiral like Chicago?

    Is New York City Entering a Pension Death Spiral like Chicago?0

    As bad as the situation in Chicago is, with a public pension system 42 billion in the red, New York has even worse exposure. Its standings include 65 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, 100 billion in unfunded retiree health care, and a city debt of approximately 50 billion – for a grand total of 215

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  • The Authenticity of Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’

    The Authenticity of Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’0

    Clint Eastwood made his name with a squint, a glare, a snarl, and a few well-chosen one-liners. His vigilante loner has served him well in films from the spaghetti Westerns, the Dirty Harry franchise, Unforgiven, PaleRider, and more. All these roles are summed up in Walt Kowalski—the main character in the 2008 film Gran Torino —a film Mr. Eastwood directed and

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