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Much of my childhood was spent in Asbury Park and Wanamassa, a small town just over the bridge from AP. One of our most celebrated residents was Tim Hauser (yes THE Tim Hauser, of Manhattan Transfer). Occasionally, Tim would take pity on my, and give me a ride home from APHS (about 2 miles from...
10/23/2014
Neil Barofsky has written a riveting book on the 2008-09 government financial bailout which he oversaw as the Special Inspector General for TARP -- the Troubled Asset Relief Program (see, if you name it something like that, with the word “Relief” in it, everyone gets on board because it sounds l...
10/08/2014
Twenty years ago, I read an interesting article in Mother Jones. It railed against the practice of women starting to have yearly mammograms at age 40. Dense breast tissue made it difficult to make an informed diagnosis, it said, so women should wait until age 50 for the test. Because my aunt d...
10/08/2014
