If you have never threatened to cancel your phone, pay TV, or Internet service, chances are you’re paying too much. Why must …
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Why do writers make stuff up?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot this week as the saga of Margaret Seltzer—a.k.a. Margaret P. Jones—unfolds. You probably have, too. As Motoko Rich reported in The New York Times:
In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native
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Do women lie more than men?
So sayeth no less an authority than the New York Post. In an article yesterday titled “Miss-Leading: The Truth About Gals’ Serial Fibbing,” the tabloid begins:
Deceit, thy name is woman.
What Hamlet actually said was “Frailty, thy name is woman.” But whatever. I quibble not. What brought on this slanderous accusation? Ah: no less a …
