How to Get Your To Do List Done

Posted on December 01, 2014 by Maria Onrubia

 

 

3 How To Get Your To Do List Done

 

John Maynard Keynes got it wrong, at least according to Elizabeth Kolbert. Read more

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How it Is: I Got Scammed by a Locksmith

Posted on October 08, 2014 by Maria Onrubia

Scammed by a locksmith
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I delete emails from down-and-out Nigerian royalty. Stranded hospital-bound strangers get nothing. And when Bernie Madoff made me an offer I couldn’t refuse, I said, “No way!” Or I would have, if he had…you get the drift. Consequently, it is with great humility (and some shame) that I admit this in a public forum: I got scammed by a locksmith—or more accurately, a con artist posing as a locksmith. Here’s how it happened.

One bright fall morning, I carefully locked all the doors to my house, walked my kids to the bus stop and handed my only house key to my son (who had forgotten his). Read more

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