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...epiphany came about while staring at the word Archipelago on an ABC Stout label during a promotional event. "I thought, what a great name: Archipelago somehow resonated with spices and islands ... What if we make a spiced beer with indigenous local spices?" She further reckoned that Singaporeans-often affluent and adventurous diners-could be persuaded to pay a few dollars extra for a novel-tasting designer tipple...
...farm where her father raised foxes for fur to the contents of the wedding trunk that her poor but meticulous family put together for her are entirely engrossing. The emotional life of the narrator is also wonderfully well developed. When she goes to work as a maid for an affluent family at their summer home, we feel her loneliness and awkwardness in the presence of their lifestyle of tennis and hors d’oeuvres. As the narrator grows older, she becomes more contemplative, and her exploration of her identity subtly becomes the main focus. Her fascination with the lives...
When the Census Bureau announced last August that northern Virginia's Loudoun County had become the nation's most affluent, with a median household income of $98,483, it was something of a shock to locals. Loudoun is far from exclusive: a third of its 255,000 residents arrived in the past half-decade. The median house sells for $440,000. These Loudounites are not trust-fund babies or Wall Street zillionaires but youngish professionals with kids to raise and mortgages...
...daughter Meiping was an attractive and intelligent young woman of 23. Growing up in Communist China, she had seen a society in which the children of the educated and affluent had enjoyed many advantages replaced, not by an egalitarian society but by a new system of discrimination against children like herself and their families. For instance, to be admitted into a good middle school, she had to score 80% on the entrance examination while children of workers and peasants got in with 60%. ''This is unfair!'' I had exclaimed at the time, indignant that my child was being discriminated against...
...million, much of it to causes in the Dallas area. Substantial amounts of money have been targeted for education projects and other bootstrap programs for minorities. Meanwhile, Perot and his family (he and Wife Margot have five children, ages 15 to 28) live unassumingly in one of Dallas' affluent neighborhoods. Most of his evenings are spent quietly at home. To cut stuffy out-of-towners down to size, Perot has been known to take them for lunch to smoky, crowded barbecue joints populated by local good ole boys. Says Perot: "Positions and titles aren't important to me. Results...