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DEAR MISS MANNERS: My stepson is a successful novelist. I’m reading an advanced copy of his new book, which is brilliant, but contains a neurodivergent character that doesn’t ring quite true to me. (I ...

Dear Eric: The president of my religious institution is, in my view, a fine leader and a rotten speaker. I have participated in a number of meetings he has led and am driven crazy by the number of ...

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Media mogul Dele Momodu has claimed that President Bola Tinubu has placed Nigeria under "a civilian dictatorship." Momodu ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My stepson is a successful novelist. I’m reading an advanced copy of his new book, which is brilliant, but contains a neurodivergent character that doesn’t ring quite true to me. (I ...