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...thinking is this: you send the magazine to your selected 110,000 rich folks (chosen, more or less, by zip code and whether they have at least $1 million equity in their home as well as a minimum net worth of $2 million). Those prospective readers are so psyched about the wealth-management advice they get in their free bimonthly that they tell their rich but less-favorably-zip-coded friends, who then plunk down the $20 at a newsstand. "If there's six degrees of separation between all of us, there's about one degree of separation between high...
...exquisite, a fresher and bolder adaptation of the original ballet would have better served as celebration of the Ballet Russes. Although the choreography did at times add its own creative flair—with the passionate scenes depicting two ancestors fighting over the fate of the “chosen one” or the possessed movements of the pagan tribe as they come in contact with powerful ancestors—it seemed to rely heavily on the movements and themes of the original “Rite of Spring” performance. The artistic vision and purpose of Blanc?...
...faced by soaring unemployment and an accompanying rise in poverty, Beijing is scrambling to put in place measures that will ease the pain for the newly impoverished. Some 16 billion dollars has been budgeted by the central government for health and education in the coming years, and its chosen method of distributing the money is often those same village committees. "The push is on for rural community development centers that include such things as health care clinics, deciding who qualifies for government relief, conflict resolution centers, libraries, even sometimes a small supermarket," says Liu. "This anticipates the return...
...undue, might we remark on what interesting garments you have chosen to don this evening? In our day, business casual practically meant a three-piece suit. Well, it is true that cravats and waistcoats are only adopted now by a particular kind of man. But if you would just remove your Converse sneakers from the white linen—if you could just—ahh, here is the bill...
...Meanwhile, a flurry of polls find the once popular Royal now badly trailing most Socialist Party leaders as the best person to take Sarkozy on for the presidency in 2012. But that, French political analysts agree, is precisely why Royal has chosen such an explosive method of reacting to Sarkozy. Sure, the immediate fall-out may earn her criticism from fellow pols and the public alike - but the alternative would be to do nothing for the next three years, and risk people forgetting that she and her presidential ambitions exist...