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Some people dismiss etiquette as nothing more than arcane rules about which fork to use, but etiquette really is about the common understandings we need to avoid embarrassing ourselves, becoming unduly offended, or both.
Like all freedom-loving Americans, I was outraged and appalled to learn that the Obama administration has been investigating government leaks by spying on reporters, even going so far as to secretly seize the phone records of our nation's hard-working jou
It's one of the most important numbers influencing life as we know it, and I don't mean your ZIP code, dress size or how much you spent on Mother's Day gifts for your wife. I mean your credit score, which, besides determining how much credit you get and how much you pay for it, also dictates your insurance rates, ability to rent an apartment and very likely what version of Windows you can purchase.
It's commencement season, which is the time when middle-aged crabs like me offer our sage wisdom to you, our graduating young 'uns. We do this not only out of a sense of duty but also because we are deluded enough to think you might pay attention.
Detroit News Finance Editor Brian O'Connor joined in The News in 2005. He is the winner of the inaugural Christopher H. Welles Memorial Prize for business writing from Columbia University, as well as a winner of the Best in Business award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. O'Connor also is a two-time winner of the award for humor writing from the National Society of Newspaper columnists. A native Detroiter, he is a graduate of The Roeper School in Bloomfield Hills, Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he was a 2001 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in business and economics.
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