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In Defense of the Post Office
Tweet Share on Facebook December 22, 2011 Comment (10)Our friends working overtime at the Post Office this holiday season deserve a heap more respect than they have been given--by Congress and by extension, the public. With every Christmas card you write, think of how far it goes and the hands that take it there, for 44 cents.
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Remembering Richard Holbrooke a Year after His Death
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2011 CommentThe bell tolls, the world weeps for Richard Holbrooke.
He made the earth seem small in his exuberant embrace,
holding a cell phone and flashing the blues.
Wish there were time and world enough for one more set before day is done,
before the last battle is lost—or won.
We will have for company a spirit that shall never be extinguished.
Yet just now, days before the winter solstice, the world is sadder, duller and darker—
and yes, lonelier without you, Richard Holbrooke.
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'New Domesticity' Is a Step Backwards for Women
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2011 Comment (17)Reader, beware the seeds of a pseudo-retro trend sown on the Washington Post Outlook pages about a week ago by a 29-year-old woman: a "new domesticity" which elegant writer Emily Matchar hopes will come to a kitchen or garden near you.
