So you've recovered from your last affair, and are ready to re-enter the dating scene.  As any astronaut will tell you, re-entry is the most treacherous part of the job, with temperatures reaching several hundred degrees Celsius even before you get back to your place.  Here are a

Today’s top business story:  Bruno Michel Iksil, a trader nicknamed the “London Whale,” may have caused J.P. Morgan Chase to lose $2.3 billion.  This makes the $1.3 billion that Nick Leeson cost England’s Barings in 1995 look like pocket change.

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I came upon a jar in Southie,
With salsa was it filled.
It sat within a sidewalk square,
A centerpiece on a table bare.

The barren land fell all away
and left it there in low relief.
The jar was round upon the ground
and sat alone beside D Street.

I was on a

Every year, there are fewer banks because of bank failures, industry consolidation and Japanese movie monsters such as Godzilla, who go on rampages and crush small to medium-sized community lenders.  As a result, consumers are increasingly at a disadvantage in their search for pens ch

Saturday night in Boston, and my boyhood friend Mad Dog is in town. Normally I take such an opportunity for a guy's night out at one of Beantown's four major league sports venues, but this time Mrs. Dog is with him, and my wife has put

ANN ARBOR, Michigan.  Republican presidential candidate Willard "Mitt" Romney today denied that he was the father of the Massachusetts law that gave birth to a universal health measure known as "Romneycare," saying "I never met that bill before in my life."

"Talk to that guy ov

AGAWAM, Mass.  For Rich Cseko, a lawyer whose practice is concentrated in business aviation, a typical day at the office finds him surrounded by wealthy clients as he caters to their personal transportation needs.  “These people are too busy to fly commercial,” he says as

Portable crappers, and phat gangsta rappers
Overdressed lawyers, who think that they’re dapper
Blonde second wives who are festooned with bling-
These are a few of my least favorite things.

New SUVs that my teenage son crashes
Posh window treatments with jabots and sashes.
Pant legs that st

UPTON, Mass.  Twelve-year-old Jennifer Goshecki would like to have a Facebook account, but her mother Julie doesn’t think she’s ready.  “Why should I expose her to millions of dirty old men on the internet,” she asks rhetorically.  “We’ve

WAUMSFORD, Ill.  First it was airplane glue, says Duane Lee Hoskins, manager of the Wal-Mart store here.  "Kids would buy that stuff then show up to Friday night football games all demented," he recalls grimly.  "It made for some pretty weak cheering by the pep club."

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