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Levine said she believes the shoe store will attract "a younger more affluent clientele to Central Square...
With so many affluent, culturally aware parents busy parenting, it's no wonder authors have been busy authoring, cashing in with truckloads of books about you and your child. The trend has even touched the fluffiest genre of nonfiction, the self-help book. Commercially, the match is a natural; intellectually, it's problematic. A self-help book about child rearing is almost an oxymoron. Self-help literature, as the name implies, proceeds from a claustrophobic obsession with self--how to improve the self, how to make the self feel better about itself and, pre-eminently, how to make the self...
According to Orfield, the most important aspect of METCO, however, was not so much the interracial experience but the educational and psychological advantages for minority students of attending affluent schools where students are encouraged to succeed...
...Ramseys' investigation has been regarded skeptically by many, who see it as an attempt by the affluent couple to deflect attention from themselves or to win sympathy from a jury pool if either or both are charged with their daughter's murder. But Haddon told TIME the probe has elicited nine "substantial, credible leads," all tied to suspects who are not John or Patsy Ramsey. None of these leads are yet strong enough to hand over to the Boulder authorities, Haddon said. But he insisted that the investigation is not a hedge against possible criminal indictments. "The Ramseys...
...shot through with benefits for those who don't need them. Yet any proposal to institute a means test is either ignored or howled down. Example: Medicare premiums are the same for me as for someone with a fraction of my income. But the Senate's proposal to make affluent seniors pay more was dropped from the tax bill, largely because House Republicans feared a savage attack from Democrats...