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Miss Manners: My elderly mom is being pressured to attend a grad party 10 hours away
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to family pressuring a 90-year-old family member to ...
Usher delivers inspirational commencement address at Emory University, receives honorary doctorate
Usher receives an honorary doctorate during Emory University’s 180th commencement ceremony on Monday, May 12. Usher Raymond ...
Where tomorrow’s scientists prefer to live − and where they’d rather not
Just looking at the overall percentages, California tops the list of preferred places, with 49% of all survey-takers stating a preference to live there, followed by New York at 45% and Massachusetts ...
Miss Manners: The graduation invitation now sounds almost like a threat
Miss Manners is grateful for anything that stops people from becoming belligerent, which is what she gathers you mean by ...
Miss Manners: They said my elderly mom was rude for declining an invitation to a grandkid’s graduation
One of them told my mother that her spiritual adviser said that turning down an invitation was insulting and hurtful and ...