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The Simple Dollar Need a financial advisor? Avoid commissions.
While you’re never guaranteed to find one that is truly unbiased, a fee-based financial advisor is one that earns his or her income solely based on the fee you pay them, not on commissions from any products they suggest to you, Hamm writes.
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More Powerful Than Dynamite
Author Thai Jones is an assured narrator and brings the book's setting of 1914 New York vividly to life.
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Beastly Things
Guido Brunetti of the Venetian Commissario di Polizia returns – and we're glad to see him.
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Banned Books Week: Why these 10 classics got kicked out of class
Is this is a roundup of objectionable literature – or a Great Books roster? The same titles that some call great literature others find to be filthy, bad, or dangerous. Here are a handful of the often surprising – and sometimes downright baffling – reasons that objectors around the world wanted to ban these books.
09/28/2010 11:30 am -
Chapter & Verse Five books to read after checking the egg recall list
Here are five books that help to place the egg recall in context.
08/23/2010 12:00 pm -
Promised Land
Works that reflect America's aims and desires.
12/25/2008 12:00 am -
Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini
11/24/2008 12:00 am -
New on DVD: 'Juno,' 'There Will be Blood'
The two Oscar-winning films get a home-video release. One's a comedy; the other decidedly is not.
04/11/2008 01:00 am -
Chapter & Verse Books that go to the Oscars
02/25/2008 12:00 am -
And the Oscar nominees are ... a bit on the dark side
The films leading the race tended to be long on grandeur and bleak in outlook. Is it a reflection of America's mood?
01/23/2008 12:00 am -
USA
01/07/2008 12:00 am -
In Paul Thomas Anderson's epic, oil is thicker than 'Blood'
'There Will Be Blood,' a story about the rise and fall of a robber baron, isn't the year's best film. But it's certainly the strangest – and compelling, at that.
01/04/2008 12:00 am
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