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When Russian President Boris Yeltsin took the stage that rainy spring day in 1998 in the elegant marble hall of the Kremlin, he could not have been more charming. Dressed...

These days it is a common scenario: A middle-aged woman marries a man of like age. Both are empty nesters and each is a homeowner with an enviable amount of...

Q There is one thing wrong with your otherwise advice in your recent columns on automatic dishwashers. The instructions usually seem to assume that one uses the dishes, knocks off...

If you're feeling a little blue, you're not alone. From ice to robin's egg to periwinkle blue kissed with lavender, from rich sapphire to inky indigo, cool blue is hot...

The spirit of Scarlett O'Hara and her velvet curtain dress is alive and well in New Orleans, where designer Angele Parlange practices what she calls "Creole thrift." The phrase, which...

Q. I made an apparent mistake by wrapping a wooden bowl in newspaper and storing it in the attic for over a year. After removing it recently from the box...

The veterinarian and his wife, a teacher, knew they had to move because their house wasn't large enough to accommodate them and their five school-age children. Their only question was...

George W. is the man who isn't there this spring in Washington. Oh, you can easily glimpse him on TV, his increasingly troubled visage close to obsessive as he repeats...

Q. A few years ago, I removed the carpeting from two flights of stairs and replaced it with maple hardwood. They look beautiful, but they're very slippery. A few months...

Most homeowners are averse to the notion of renting out their property, even on a short-term basis. Becoming a landlord evokes fear of damage to their place and countless complications....