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Keyword: Randi Kreiss
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The joke’s on me. In the 1990s I wrote an April Fools’ Day column about outsized, outrageous and off-the-charts summer camp programs for kids.
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7/7/11
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When I arrived in Florida to baby-sit last week, an amber alert had been issued. Apparently, that morning, Peanut, the resident mesocricetus auratus, had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Neither Sabrina, 8, nor Jacob, 6, could say who was playing with him at the time or how he got away. Their parents had already left on their vacation.
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6/30/11
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Perhaps you’ve seen the recent flood of stories about grown children moving home again. Or maybe you have your very own 35-year-old leaving his laundry on the floor. Apparently kids are landing on their parents’ doorsteps at various stages of adulthood due to bad luck, the bad job market, bad marriages or bad karma.
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6/23/11
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Frankly speaking — and we must speak frankly when speaking of A Weiner (that would be Anthony Weiner, the beleaguered congressman from New York) — he’s in the doghouse.
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6/16/11
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The market is down, oil prices are up, the Arab world is imploding and I have this annoying pain in my shoulder. What to do but pick up a good book?
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6/10/11
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Our guide in Penang, Malaysia, hopped onto our bus, introduced himself and said, “I am Sikh but as you see I do not wear a turban, I love beer and I enjoy spare ribs … I am a great disappointment to my mother.” Of course he got his laugh, but he also made his point. We could expect to be surprised.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/2/11
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Have you ever paid a bribe? Before you leap to the self-righteous response, think about it.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/26/11
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In some ways, pirates are like dragons — scary only in a far-away and make-believe way. It isn’t easy to take Captain Hook seriously when you’re sitting in your den, flipping the channels and listening to Wolf Blitzer report the story of Americans captured by Somali pirates. Pirates of the Arabian Sea seem just as imaginary as Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/19/11
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Where were you when you heard that Osama bin Laden had been killed by American commandos? I think I can say with perfect certainty that you could never imagine where I was.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/12/11
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Can you imagine a weekly newspaper sending a foreign correspondent overseas? Well, you might imagine it, but it would never happen. My foreign travel budget pretty much stops at the bridges and tunnels. I haven’t worn a flak jacket in years.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/5/11
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