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<![CDATA[Give 'Em Hill: Thanksgiving tidbits, served warm and smothered in snark]]>
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<![CDATA[Under no circumstances whatsoever. I don't care if the world is ending and this is the last Thanksgiving meal on earth. I don't care if it's in a swanky restaurant or a Swanson's Hungry Man TV dinner.]]>
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<![CDATA[ahill@bayareanewsgroup.com (Angela Hill / Oakland Tribune)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:43:40 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[The Ethicist: What to do with the boat]]>
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<![CDATA[Q: Friends staying at our lakeside house found a small paddle boat washed up on our property and, thinking it was ours, tied it to our dock. It is not.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Randy Cohen / Universal Press Syndicate)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:38:22 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Days Gone By: Memories of gym class at Berkeley's Burbank Junior High]]>
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<![CDATA[Last month my husband and I made another trip to The Dalles, Ore., and collected more stories from my 101-year-old mother, Gilia Peruzzo Jacuzzi. She was in rare form, having just received the first Senior Leadership Award from the Oregon Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Nilda Rego / Times correspondent)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:38:15 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Advice Goddess: Show me the money shot]]>
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<![CDATA[Q: Being too nice and having low self-esteem has meant that I've dated a list of losers. The most recent loser works with me. Without my knowledge, he took photos of us having sex, and e-mailed them to men at our workplace.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Amy Alkon / Contra Costa Times correspondent)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:38:13 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Ask Amy: Have the Talk, But at the Right Time]]>
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<![CDATA[DEAR AMY: My girlfriend wants to "talk" again. She is currently experiencing her monthly cycle. Can I ask her to wait until this is over? She usually gets a bit worked up and later apologizes.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Amy Dickinson / Tribune Media Services)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:38:00 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Male Call: Political talk takes the stuffing out of Thanksgiving gatherings]]>
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<![CDATA[Greetings readers, and welcome! The wise editors of the section you're reading have decided to add this, an advice column written from a guy's viewpoint that originates in the San Jose Mercury News, to your usual restaurant-quality Sunday fare.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Male Call / San Jose Mercury News)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:37:57 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Keep cold at bay with winter's stylish warmers]]>
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<![CDATA[THE ONE BRIGHT spot in winter's dreadful chilly months is getting to wrap up in some of the season's hottest coats. Now that we're being teased by autumn (give or take 20 degrees each day), we thought it was time to take a look at some styles and colors in outerwear that will have you begging for a]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Bridget Tiernan  / McClatchy Newspapers)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:22:16 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Miss Manners: He compared his traveling daughter to my deployed son]]>
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<![CDATA[DEAR MISS  MANNERS: In an e-mail from a high school friend with whom I had only recently reconnected, he told me about his pain at seeing his daughter off at the airport as she headed for distant lands to spend a year teaching English.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Miss Manners by Judith Martin / United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)]]>
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<![CDATA[Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:32:52 -0700]]>
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