Lauren Katz

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Carl Goldman gifted his wife, Jeri Seratti-Goldman, a combined Christmas and birthday present this year of a trip to Southeast Asia on a Princess Cruise. The Diamond Princess, to be exact. Along with two of their close friends, he left for Tokyo on January 17 and boarded the ship three days later. On the final day of the sail, the captain announced that a passenger who had left the ship in Hong Kong four days earlier now had the coronavirus. The ship went back to Yokohama Harbor in Japan, Goldma…

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Do you remember President Trump’s inaugural address? He talked about crime, gang violence, drugs. He called it “American carnage.” The speech left a lot of people scratching their heads. Violent crime in the country had been trending downward for decades. George W. Bush, who was actually seated a few feet away from the new president apparently turned to his neighbors when the speech was over and said, “That was some weird shit.” But now, in the fourth year of the Trump presidency, “American carn…

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