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...from dragging their kids through the frenzied after-school ritual of dinners on the go and crosstown SUV shuttle runs among practices, competitions, private lessons and club meetings. Unlike most parents, however, the folks in Ridgewood decided to do something about the situation. Two years ago, leaders in this affluent community launched Ready, Set, Relax!, a citywide initiative that encouraged frazzled families to put down some speed bumps in their fast-paced lives. Before Ready, Set, Relax!, Donna Olsen says, "I might not have made the choice to skip soccer practice...
...records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year, 5,000 new albums pile up on endless racks in drugstores and supermarkets, there to await the ready purses of Mom and her affluent children. Last year, those purses responded to the galactic, 16-track, monster-smash tune of nearly $2 billion in records and tapes, making music, for the first measurable time in history, the most popular form of entertainment in America. --TIME...
...real reason not to do it is because the story is not about me or my co-workers, although it makes for interesting reading,” he says. “The real story is the scandal of poverty in the world today: people who in this affluent era have no food, no water and no medical care...
MAIDMAN: Some private equity, but more things like fixed-income arbitrage, convertible-bond arbitrage, distressed securities, emerging market--debt arbitrage. I deal with affluent investors, and these help returns without adding risk. You have to look at your time line. If you don't have 10 years, you should not be in LBOs and venture funds...
...Runner, this symbol of liberation serves only to remind Afghan refugee Amir of a past he has desperately tried to escape. Exiled to San Francisco, Amir revisits that past in a series of flashbacks set amidst Afghanistan's war-wracked history. What begins as a rosy portrayal of an affluent childhood in 1970s Kabul quickly turns into a wretched but compelling tale of friendship, betrayal, guilt and redemption...