Here's something that might provide a bit of solace amid the plunging values in your retirement accounts: Warren Buffett is losing lots of money, too. So are Kirk Kerkorian, Carl Icahn and Sumner Redstone.They are still plenty rich, but their losses ...
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A teacher, a thief and a lawyer all die in the same freak accident. So when they reach the pearly gates, St. Peter tells them that, unfortunately, heaven is overcrowded, so they each have to answer a question correctly for admission. The teacher is f...
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One evening, Maya was making plans for her birthday. She sat in the living room with her father and instructed him on what to get for her."I want a chocolate cake...only a chocolate cake...and white candles on top, please ensure they are white.....
When I was a child, I didn't have hair on my head, just some stubs. I liked to watch my friends play. I would join them now and then, but I preferred watching. Every day, we would see an old man walking by our playground, carrying an umbrella. He had...
The sun shone through Gayatri's window. It teased her eyelids open. She yawned, stretched and got out of bed - things she had done a thousand times before. For Gayatri, today began like any other day. Gayatri Verma was a bright, 12-year-old girl with...
When I was a child, I didn't have hair on my head, just some stubs.
I liked to watch my friends play. I would join them now and then, but I preferred watching.
Every day, we would see an old man walking by our playground, carrying an umbrell...
Once it started raining, it just wouldn’t stop. The sky wept great tears in an endless stream until the clouds had entered everyone’s hearts and made them feel as grey and weepy as the weather. But still it rained on and on.
Everyone stayed at ho...