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...Jovanovic, who lives in Calgary, Alta., with Steve Mesler and Brock Kreitzburg, his close friends and teammates in Hays' four-man bobsled. "I'm always telling [Mesler], Just because we live together, we don't have to do everything together all day. He tortures me." Hays is even more direct. "It's definitely a challenge just to keep from killing each other," he says...
...good strategy, Perle discovered when her husband walked out with all the family finances in his name. In the aftermath, Perle was forced to confront her fiscal shortcomings. "Disappointments, reversals, divorce or death have taught us that we have to take direct responsibility for our financial lives," she writes...
Larsen sees the crackdown as a way of targeting the problem without going after the workers directly--an acceptable solution for the sensitive political ecosystem of the Hamptons. Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, who mainly oversees the more working-class communities west of the Hamptons, takes a more direct approach. Levy, a Democrat, has initiated sting operations on local contractors and helped towns bust lawbreaking landlords. His police also forcibly removed day laborers from a Farmingville 7-Eleven parking lot. Levy says the voters in his county appreciate his strong arm. "There's a tremendous disconnect between the public...
...turning rosy for the young woman whose early life had been scarred by the tragic death of her mother, Christina Onassis, and circumscribed by the pressures of enormous wealth - an estimated $600 million she picked up as sole heiress to her mother's fortune. Even so, Athina, the last direct descendant of the legendary Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, had reason to expect more last weekend. She grew up believing she would inherit the remainder of her family's fortune - in excess of $1 billion - and assume a hereditary role at the helm of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation...
...growth led by massive quantities of investment and booming low-cost exports. "The threat of China is doing some good," O'Neill said. He pointed out that India has been changing its domestic rules in a bid to attract more foreign investment, a tactic which he labels "a direct product of being envious of how much investment China is getting." The one caveat: while he expects the Chinese economy to grow by a factor of 20 between now and 2050, India will be 50 times bigger - but will still lose...