Dear Abby style column on privacy and etiquette lessons
A reader seeks advice about an overinvolved friend Sue who helps and visits too often. Abby explains accepting favors creates obligations and suggests cutting back to preserve privacy. Other letters cover handling personal questions at work and a sister's troubled housekeeping causing family friction.
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County Attorney Ruth Harkin Balances Career and Baby
Ruth Harkin, Story County attorney and Iowa's only female county attorney, prosecuted a severe Ames murder case while seven months pregnant. She won Thomas Sheehan’s life sentence after a six hour standoff. Her husband Tom Harkin runs for Congress as she manages a fulltime office and a newborn daughter Amy.
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