Sunday, November 24

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Our Best Christmas Memories – WSJ
27Dec By adminNo Comments
Health

Our Best Christmas Memories – WSJ

Editor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss their best holiday memories. Next week we’ll ask, “With New Year’s around the corner, what should we expect in 2024? Will inflation go down? Will peace deals be made? What else do you expect this new year?” Students should click here to submit opinions of fewer than 250 words before Jan. 2. The best responses will be published that night.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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How to Take the Whole Family Skiing Without Going Broke
26Dec By adminNo Comments
Travel

How to Take the Whole Family Skiing Without Going Broke

Skiing is not a cheap sport. It requires a lot of gear and, depending on where you live, travel. For families, the expense mushrooms with each child, often before they can determine whether skiing — or snowboarding — is an activity the children actually like.In efforts to nurture future generations of downhillers, ski areas are increasingly offering discount passes to families with children, generally in the third through sixth grade — good ages, resorts say, to try a physically demanding sport — and sometimes tweens and teens.“It’s rough to have to spend a few thousand dollars to see if you like something,” said Adrienne Saia Isaac, the marketing and communications director for the National Ski Areas Association, which represents resorts around the country. “This is a low-risk way to see...
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Musk Says ‘Make More Italians’
25Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Musk Says ‘Make More Italians’

William McGurn is a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and writes the weekly "Main Street" column for the Journal each Tuesday. Previously he served as Chief Speechwriter for President George W. Bush.Mr. McGurn has served as chief editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal in New York. He spent more than a decade overseas -- in Brussels for The Wall Street Journal/Europe and in Hong Kong with both the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. And in the mid-1990s, he was Washington Bureau Chief for National Review.Bill is author of a book on Hong Kong ("Perfidious Albion") and a monograph on terrorism ("Terrorist or Freedom Fighter"). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, holds a BA in philosophy from Notre Dame and an MS in Communicatio...
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25Nov By adminNo Comments
Health

Weekend podcast: what’s happened to The Crown? Surviving a shipwreck, how Aldi and Lidl changed British shoppers, and Philippa Perry on loneliness | Life and style

How The Crown went from prestige drama to TV disaster (1m26s); what happened when one man’s boat sank in the dead of night – and he had to save my seven-year-old son (11m19s); how discount supermarkets changed the way we shop (25m21); and Philippa Perry shares advice on how to overcome loneliness and isolation (40m08s) How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know
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Singapore family office enquiries slow amid money laundering probe
24Nov By adminNo Comments
Money

Singapore family office enquiries slow amid money laundering probe

SINGAPORE -- The pace of enquiries to set up family offices in Singapore has slowed amid an investigation into a case of massive money laundering in the city-state, though some remain hopeful that the wave of Chinese wealth flooding into the city has not yet crested.The number of single-family offices in Singapore nearly tripled from 400 in 2020 to about 1,100 by the end of 2022, data from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) shows. No official breakdown by country of origin is given, but lawyers and wealth advisors in Singapore have been courting wealthy Chinese looking to diversify from their home country. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n; ...
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Facing the Rivals | The New Yorker
11Nov By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Facing the Rivals | The New Yorker

Though Henri and Marie-Céleste took the spotlight off me, they did not relieve me of my primary burden. Their rapport was principally with my father, who appreciated both their humor and their intellect—I always thought that my dad, who worked in factories from age fourteen until his retirement, might in different circumstances have become an academic himself. I had few conflicts with my father, the more broad-minded of my parents by some distance. My mother clearly enjoyed the company of Henri and Marie-Céleste, but wasn’t quite as close to them, because they lacked the one quality she considered essential: piety. My mother was a hard-shell peasant Catholic who had never read the Bible but believed fervently in rituals, icons, beads, scapulars, and above all the spiritual benefits of har...
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The Nest Is Never Truly Empty
6Nov By adminNo Comments
Business

The Nest Is Never Truly Empty

Now that our daughter and son are grown and living elsewhere, my wife and I are often asked what it’s like to be empty nesters. Even though our children have moved away, the nest doesn’t feel empty to me. When they left, a good bit of their stuff stayed behind.Our daughter has been married a year now, but her old bedroom remains intact, a shrine to adolescent life in a previous decade. Yearbooks line the shelf, relics always neglected because young people can’t imagine needing a prompt to remember high school. There are dolls stored under the bed and some prom dresses, I think, in the closet.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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My Grandmother and the Canine Detective
28Oct By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

My Grandmother and the Canine Detective

My grandmother, who is ninety-two, has moved three times in her life. She was born in a small town in the province of Shandong, China, and, when she was twenty-three, she took a boat to Shanghai. When she was sixty-three, she moved to Sydney, Australia—where I was born—and then, when she was eighty-five, came with me and my mother to New York. There are a few similarities across these places: all three are port cities—populous, but not the capital—that grew fat off the trade of an eastern coast. Another constant in her life, at least in the past twenty or so years, has been the Austrian police-procedural television show “Inspector Rex,” which is about a crime-fighting dog.“Rex” débuted in 1994, the year I was born, and ran for eighteen seasons over the course of twenty-one years. A standa...
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