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...well-heeled parents, it's easy to justify the indulgence. Sheila Allen was worried that her daughter Rebecca would face too much stress at Princeton University, where the 18year-old will be balancing academics with a spot on the ice-hockey team. So Sheila pushed for a new Pier 1 sofa and prodded her daughter into other purchases ranging from a flat-screen TV to a mini-fridge-freezer to a papasan chair. "She needs to be able to relax," says Sheila. To that end, Rebecca will also have new video-game accessories plus her roommate's karaoke machine...
...much money in our lifetimes (though for some budding entrepreneurs it’s not out of the question). In fact, in 2004, Johnny Harvard would only rank as the fourth richest person in the world, according to Forbes—right ahead of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen (20 billion), but well behind Bill Gates (48 billion). But how much is Harvard’s money really worth in everyday terms? Let FM crunch the numbers for you (all figures, naturally, are in dollars signed by El Presidente Larry H. Summers...
...under the delusion that it makes a man impotent ... Graceful gondolas carry it along the narrow canals of Venice, and sturdy, resigned burros tote it into the dusty Mexican hills. Bright red signs proclaim its worth beneath the blank, unastonished eyes of the great Sphinx ... The late William Allen White once described Coke as the "sublimated essence of all America stands for." To find something as thoroughly native American hawked in half a hundred languages on all the world's crossroads from Arequipa to Zwolle is still strangely anomalous, somewhat like reading Dick Tracy in French or seeing a Japanese...
...impossible for the players to disregard what their old coach had taught them, or what his self-sacrifice, game after aching game, had meant. The team was dealt a further blow when Allen finally succumbed to his illness, passing away just as school ended...
...players] didn’t want to forget the personal stuff they had with Coach Allen,” Gilmore said, “because they had a tremendous amount of respect and a very close personal relationship with him. But at the same time they knew from a football standpoint that there had to be some changes,” Gilmore said...