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This month, all over America, parents are packing up their kids

It's that time of year again. School is out, vacations are

Two stories hit the news recently. First, a report of a

Go see “War Horse.” That's the best advice I can give you for this season of theatre.

August is supposed to be a dead month for politics, a time to

Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” has never been out of print since it was first published in 1868. It was translated into a least a dozen foreign languages during Alcott's life and can now be found in 50 different languages including Bengali, Chinese, Indonesian and Urdu.

You know those days when everything comes together perfectly?

We now explore an interesting hand that is a little short on high card points (HCP's), but holds a valuable asset called “dummy points,” which is shortness in a side-suit. Dummy should value a side-suit doubleton at one extra point, a singleton at three extra points and a void at five extra points. The reason shortness in a side-suit is important is that dummy is able to convert some of declarer's losing tricks into winners by trumping them in dummy - a pretty good feature to have.

Most economists agree that there is extreme income inequality in