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...oddly enough, it is the gurus of the new simplicity who are discovering that success brings unexpected complexities. The industry leaders are Vicki Robin and her friend Joe Dominguez, who wrote Your Money or Your Life, which has grossed $3.5 million and sold 350,000 copies in just three years. In that time, Robin has given more than 600 press interviews, plowed through two 10-city book tours, appeared twice on Oprah and co-conducted financial seminars around North America. Before the book was written, she hadn't been on an airplane in 20 years. Now she has more frequent...
Robin and Dominguez live in Seattle on only $13,000 a year, honoring some of the precepts in Your Money (repair your own car, shop at garage sales), while ignoring others (sell your house and live in a motor home, eat beans). They have put the profits they have netted into a charitable foundation. "We're delighted by the commercial success," says Robin, "but people have been hounding us for money. We want to give it out, but at our discretion...
...Dominguez says that Harvard's Afro-American studies program is not an example of limited ethnic studies, because the department is based on a racial, rather than an ethnic, category...
...their letter responding to the AAC's proposal, Knowles and Dominguez acknowledge that FAS hopes to raise enough money for 40 new professorships. Those teaching positions have not yet been assigned to departments. The letter does say that FAS is willing to accept donations aimed specifically at the teaching and research on issues of race and ethnicity...
...This letter was the first time the dean made any connection regarding the future." Dominguez says. "It was never clear that Harvard was ready to use funds in this...