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My date was so awful that, before we parted ways, I asked her to repay me for 50% of the taxi fare. Was I being cheap?
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My daughter bought a $350,000 home and took out $20,000 in personal loans. She’s fallen behind on payments. What now?
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Calm founder used money he saved to buy a house to help start the app—now it’s valued at $2 billion: ‘My parents thought it was the silliest idea’
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'My university course made me who I am - now it's being cut'
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'My wife told me to date after she died - I wasn't ready for what was out there'
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I met the ‘godfathers of AI’ in Paris – here’s what they told me to really worry about | Alexander Hurst
Experts are split between concerns about future threats and present dangers. Both camps issued dire warnings. I was a technophile in my early teenage days, sometimes wishing that I had been born in ...The Guardian - 3d -
My husband has millions in a trust fund, pays all our bills and gives me $4,000 a month. Will I get our house if I divorce him?
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Jared Harris: ‘What do I dislike about my appearance? Everything. I have a weird eyebrow, red hair, freckles … ’
The actor on being on set with his famous father, his dislike of Vladimir Putin, and why the police gave him a bed for the night. Born in London, Jared Harris, 63, appeared on television in Mad Men ...The Guardian - Feb. 8 -
‘I didn’t want to spend time with my children. I was just going through the motions’: the pain of parental burnout
Most people with small children are worn out – but for some, the pressure of striving to be perfect parents can drive them to the edge. . ‘I cried like someone had died,” Rachel Stern says of the ...The Guardian - 2d -
'I watched a soap for the first time aged 27, here's what I thought'
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