Greetings from New York, where I just got back from a weekend in Miami with Mrs. Jeffmacke and one of her best friends. Women can make best friends from grade school and keep them until the

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He’s never won an Emmy or starred in a highly rated primetime series. But despite his low profile, actor Paul Marcarelli may be one of the most instantly recognizable faces on television. The V

The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

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