- Wal-Mart gets into the casket business
- Doug Holtz-Eakin about to lose health insurance, still opposes the Democrats' reform plans.
- Louisa May Alcott's private sorrows.
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Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.