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ALWAYS MAKE A WEALTHY WOMAN YOUR WIFE The Kerry Marry-Go-Round [Tune: "Never Make a Pretty Woman Your Wife"] [Chorus] If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life, Better make a wealthy woman your wife, Now, from your bottom-line point of view, Get a wealthy woman to marry you! [Verse] Te-RAY-za's got all the dough you could seek-- She's a golddigger from Mozambique, Inherited money like you've never seen, When she became the Heinz Ketchup Queen! When Johnny got a look at those condiments, It became a matter of dollars and cents, Eyes fixed firmly on Te-RAY-za's jack,...

From the Smart Answers advice column:Q: One of the employees in my fabrication business uses the office computers to cruise the Internet and post comments at political forums. He is a very left-wing loudmouth, hates our President, and rants about the war in Iraq as "genocide for oil." Some of his opinions get his fellow workers so angry I have to step in to keep the peace. He is about 24 years old, has a degree, and is smart. My question: If I have to, can I fire him? I can't say it's a routine layoff because I'm hiring other...

ROGER FRANKLIN finds the Reagan commemorations show that memories of presidential records can be selective Funny thing about America.Once its voters have propelled a winner through the gates of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, he ceases to be entirely human, at least to those who have never seen him with tie loosened and feet on the desk - or in the case of Bill Clinton, suspected there might be an intern underneath it. Last week, as news broke of Ronald Reagan's death and the TV networks plotted his casket's cross-country journey, Americans were at it again. When it comes to an eager...

It took a while, but I finally realized the Gipper was a lot smarter than the folks who derided him. Folks, in other words, like me It was Christmas six years ago when Ronald Reagan, who died on Saturday at the age of 93, became an unexpected addition to our family, thanks to my son, who was then 11. As every parent knows, kids that age can have strange ideas about what the well-equipped adult really needs, so when Squirt handed me a little box with a mysterious present clunking heavily inside, I expected a clock or cast-iron sock rack...

The labor-market recovery continued to gather steam in May. The employment report for the month, released June 2, showed better-than-expected growth in nonfarm payrolls of 248,000 -- higher than the consensus estimate of 220,000, which was also our forecast at Action Economics. snipPerhaps the most impressive news in the report was the upward revisions in the workweek for March and April, alongside strength in May. Note that a swing of 0.1 hours in the workweek in any month is the hours-worked equivalent of 300,000 jobs, and the March and April data were both revised up a tick. The adjusted workweek...

Some things you never forget. A long time ago, outside a small tented military field hospital in Vietnam, I sat talking to a man who told me things he'd been hearing from the troops. I don't remember all the detail. I do know I was 27 and he was trying to be as disbelieving as I was. He didn't want to believe, but I remember him speaking like someone who knew he'd be proved wrong. There was a war going on that Australia had just joined in a country we knew no more about than we knew about the people...