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Business Day
2 Senators Question Effects of a Reverse Mortgage Proposal
They worry that a small wording change in a budget request might increase the chances of surviving spouses losing their homes.I understand that a reverse mortgage is a bad deal.
I would avoid them.
2
Opinion
Sorry, Mike Pence, You’re Doomed
Faust made a better bargain than Donald Trump’s vice president did.Like Agnew, Pence must exit ahead of the president.
Possible replacements should resemble Cal;vin Coolidge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge
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World
Zuma to Face No-Confidence Vote, This Time by Secret Ballot
Analysts said the South African president was likely to win, but could face increasing pressure within his African National Congress.Opposition to Zuma and the ANC is building.
The power structure will survive this vote and the next one.
After that I am without opinion.
The ANC must become just another party.
4
Travel
Luxury for Less in New York City
Visit during Restaurant Week, go to free or low-cost museums and take the subway (walking is nice, too).Loss leaders is an old game.
Stop saving money on luxury purchases.
Buy what you need.
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Arts
Jimmy Kimmel Says He’s Sorry for Thinking Trump’s Vacation Is a Vacation
Mr. Kimmel said he realized that the president was hard at work: “Just yesterday, he brokered a peace deal between the groundskeeper at the golf course and some gophers.”"We have made a desert and called it peace."
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U.S.
Northwestern Professor Held in Stabbing Death That Mystified Chicago
Wyndham Lathem and another man were arrested in the killing of Trenton Cornell-Duranleau, a hairstylist, after a far-reaching manhunt.I am no wiser than before I read the story.
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Books
‘I Always Prefer a Flawed Narrator to a Perfect One’
Jami Attenberg reviews Heather Chaplin’s “Reckless Years,” a memoir of an unhappy marriage that gave way to a tumultuous journey of self-discovery.An insufficiently flawed narator.
Such tales should be ghost written.
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World
Missing Marines Declared Dead and Identities Released Days After Aircraft is Found
Officials suspended the search for the missing Marines early Sunday morning, about 11 hours after their hybrid aircraft, an MV-22 Osprey, entered the water.The osprey is a bad design preserved by executive action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey#Controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_V-22_Osprey
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World
Iranian Drone Buzzes U.S. Fighter Jet Over Persian Gulf
The jet, which was waiting to land on the aircraft carrier Nimitz, was forced to swerve to avoid hitting the drone.Playing tag.
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World
As Maduro’s Venezuela Rips Apart, So Does His Military
President Nicolás Maduro has taken great pains to reward military leaders for loyalty, but some in the rank and file are turning against him.Disorder is growing. It is not yet dominant.
A couple of relief ships would start a revolution.
The population is starving.
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