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A life of giving advice is to walk the finest of lines Jan 18th 2013, 00:19 Era over. What a strange institution it is, the advice column; it's part of the cultural air we breathe, but only because of Pauline Phillips, who died yesterday at 94, and her sister Eppie Lederer. Dear Abby and Ann Landers to most of us, of course. Read full article >> On Love: 'It was a relationship unlike anything I'd been in before' Jan 17th 2013, 22:43 In July 2011, Perry Rosen gave Bryon Bereano the hard sell. Rosen had seen Bereano, an old high school friend from Rockville, through a divorce, plus a series of bad dates and dead-end relationships. "It's time," Rosen insisted. "You need to meet Margaret now." Read full article >> Quoted: Shaq on financial prudence Jan 17th 2013, 22:16 " I made a C in Accounting, so I thought I knew what I was doing. " — Shaquille O'Neal explaining how he spent his first $1 million paycheck in about half an hour, mostly on nice cars. Yes, he later ended up in debt, the retired NBA star-turned-entrepreneur told attendees at the NCAA annual convention Wednesday, reports the Chronicle of Higher Education, but learned a few life lessons in the process. Read full article >> Carolyn Hax: Choices beyond bowing to a mother's bigotry Jan 17th 2013, 21:41 It's take-(back)-control-of-your-life day. Dear Carolyn: I'm very lucky to be with the most supportive, kind, brilliant, hardworking, and genuine person I've ever met. We've been together more than a year, and we're discussing getting married. Read full article >> Michelle Obama's birthday: New Twitter, new bangs Jan 17th 2013, 21:15 On her 49th birthday Thursday, Michelle Obama turned over a few new leaves: A new Twitter account, @FLOTUS, which looks like it will replace the @MichelleObama account run by the campaign staff and largely quiet since November; and a new hairstyle — bangs! — which her office unveiled in the second tweet of the day. Of course, the much-clicked-on photo of Mrs. Obama meeting with one of the inauguration "citizen co-chairs" included a plug for the White House's National Day of Service. Read full article >> Quoted: Kim Kardashian on the rival pregnancies of Kate Middleton, Jessica Simpson Jan 17th 2013, 18:02 "I'm obviously so happy for them, but if anything I loved the privacy." — Kim Kardashian telling the Associated Press that she was grateful to Kate Middleton and Jessica Simpson, whose uteruses deflected media attention from her own life during the early weeks before her pregnancy was announced on-stage by Kanye West. Kim Kardashian enjoys privacy? (Pregnant reality star Kim Kardashian says she wants to be more private, AP) Read full article >> Read this: That football player with the fake dead girlfriend; ambassador betting; VIPs fly in Jan 17th 2013, 16:43 Other interesting stories in The Washington Post: On the off-chance your Internet search skills are failing you in your attempt to read more stories about Manti Te'o, we're here to help. Our colleague Paul Farhi notes that the too-poignant-to-check-out story of the Notre Dame star's (non-existent) dead girlfriend story is a failure of journalistic skepticism. Meanwhile, Te'o claims he was the victim of the hoax. Football pundits wonder if this will hurt him in the NFL draft. D.C. athletes react on Twitter. And another player claims he met the fake girlfriend — what? Read full article >> The 2009 People's Inaugural Ball changed lives Jan 17th 2013, 14:24 Somewhere in the crowd that night stood homeless people, wounded service members, flood survivors. If you looked into the ballroom, it would have been hard to distinguish the millionaires from the people who had only pennies in their pockets. They would dine on lobster and steak, nibble on white chocolate. They would shake hands with celebrities and dance until night moved into day. No one would know that a ripple of change was making its way through the crowd that night, and that the People's Inaugural Ball, celebrating the first African American president in U.S. history, would transform lives one by one. Read full article >> Uncle of young Newtown shooting victim turning tragedy into action Jan 17th 2013, 04:01 On Dec. 14, Alexis Haller was on the phone working on a legal brief for the Vatican when his mother texted him to say that there had been a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. His nephew was missing. Read full article >>

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