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Are We at the Top of the Market?

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
by on Living Around

When I first went to Wall Street, one of the specialists on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange took me for a tour

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Woman Around Town: NBC’s Andrea Joyce –
Breaking the Ice for Women Covering Sports

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
by on Woman Around Town

Andrea Joyce has spent most of her career on the sidelines and, from that vantage point, has influenced television and sports. Growing up in an

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Fiscal Forecast 2013 –
What Follows the Cliff Compromise?

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
by on Living Around

It’s almost frightening to use the word “fiscal” so soon after we barely managed to stay last week’s execution with the “Cliff” compromise, but the

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Serious Money is Crackerjack!

Sunday, July 15th, 2012
by on Playing Around

In his 1988 review of Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money, Mel Gussow in the New York Times wrote, “The author indicates, with malice intended, there is

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The New American Dreamer: Ready for Your Closeup?

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
by on Living Around

Staying with our LinkedIn leg of our journey (read our previous story) let’s get to uploading a photo of yourself. As much as we don’t

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Finding the Fun in Connecticut’s Fairfield County

Friday, April 27th, 2012
by on Living Around

Raising a child is expensive. Raising a child in lower Fairfield County, one of the wealthiest counties in the nation, is almost prohibitively so. This

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The Hunger Games—The Whole World is Watching

Monday, March 26th, 2012
by on Playing Around

“May the odds be ever in your favor!” This is the traditional address Effie gives the residents of District 12 before the annual Reaping ceremony,

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Erin Duffy’s Bond Girl—Stirred, not Shaken

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
by on Reading Around

Writing a bestseller is the best revenge. Erin Duffy spent more than a decade working on Wall Street. In 2008, she found herself a victim

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