DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife’s best friend from high school, “Nelly,” has become a very successful businesswoman. Each year, ...

What is the most tactful way to say I won’t be providing a job referral for my brother, while avoiding straining family ties?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife’s best friend from high school, “Nelly,” has become a very successful businesswoman. Each year, ...

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My wife’s best friend from high school, “Nelly,” has become a very successful businesswoman. Each year, she will invite us to ...

Just drink the liquid and throw away the rest? Use the straw as a single chopstick to dredge the fruit up to the rim?

A couple attends a charity auction each year on the invitation of their friend. But they can’t afford to bid, to the ...

But my wife and I are in no position financially to even bid on these items, let alone to have the winning bid.

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In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin offers guidance on how to respond when a couple is asked not ...

She invites friends to an annual fundraising event thinking it’s okay they attend and not donate. Turns out, it isn’t okay.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a strong moral requirement not to lie, which has led me to reflect on the role of full truthfulness ...