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...district spans the spectrum from very poor people living in some of the poorest neighborhoods with very high degrees of infant morality and joblessness to some of the most affluent neighborhoods in the country, if not the world," says Brian O'Connor, a Kennedy staffer...
...some, April Cornell embodies the privileged New England look, combining Martha Stewart's passion for details and doo-dads, Victorian opulence and a rather affluent Cambridge clientele...
Monica did suffer some of the problems of children caught in a divorce. Keep in mind, she was 14 and at a formative age. But I really resent all of the tabloid-like allusions to Beverly Hills 90210, because Monica was no different from affluent kids anywhere else. She grew up with the morals of the '80s and '90s. Like all kids today, and in my time too, they make mistakes. But with the exception of a couple of mistakes--and Andy Bleiler was one of them--Monica was normal for her generation. She dated, she tested the line between...
...comforts of the cars but by their sheer tonnage as well. The organization man of the 1950s might have been satisfied with a workadaddy DeSoto; in the 1970s the aspiring hipster could relieve his mid-life crisis with an Italian sports car the size of a Shriner go-cart. Affluent Americans of the 1990s--so responsible at home, so productive in the workplace--want a car designed for war. With its four-wheel drive and tons of torque and booster-rocket horsepower, today's sports-utility vehicle would have come in handy at the Battle of the Bulge...
...take a vacation, let alone have a baby. Lynn Andel, an advertising writer in Crestwood, Mo., isn't sure whether to buy life insurance to protect her kids or invest in stocks for her retirement. In this climate, it is easy to find people like the Jorjorians in affluent Wilmette, Ill., who are raising two children and finding it tough to get by on their $170,000 joint income. Their life-style is comfortable but hardly extravagant. They drive a '93 Ford Taurus and a '91 minivan. Vacations are almost always limited to visits with relatives in Michigan. "I earn...