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After her CNBC taping finished, Orman swept across the parking lot toward a waiting Town Car. Her longtime driver, Jean Germain, a strapping gentleman from Haiti, came rushing over to take a garment bag from her hands. In lieu of a bonus, last year Orman opened a retirement account for him and made the maximum contribution of $5,000. The cash is sitting in a money-market fund until she decides that the market has bottomed out. She plans to dollar-cost-average into exchange-traded funds and a few individual stocks, as she suggests doing in her books. (Read...
...sybarites, the Encore features a new nightspot called XS. The line forms the moment the joint opens, at 10 p.m. Here you can witness young women in high heels and minidresses play tug-of-war with modesty, as they alternately pull up on the top of the garment and down on the bottom, since there isn't enough fabric to do both at once. Modesty never stood a chance...
...victory would reduce that spending but might also bring down with it a rural economy propped up by soldiers' salaries and pensions. In many villages, the army is the main employer, and without it, families will begin to feel the full effect of the global recession in the garment, tourism and tea industries--the three pillars of Sri Lanka's economy. The government's only response so far has been to tighten import controls and promote local agriculture...
...Lydia Coyle, store manager of Kendall Square’s The Garment District, has taken note of the same phenomenon...
...binging on theater performances. Realizing upon his graduation in 1845 that enough was enough, he wrote in his diary, “The rudeness of a student must be laid off, and the quiet manly deportment of a gentleman put on, not merely to be worn as a garment but to become by use a part of myself.”THE SOCIALLY-CONSCIOUS AND THE SOCIALITEWhen Theodore Roosevelt arrived at Harvard, it was beginning to look like the school it is today—a place of legacy, tradition, old money and high class. Later in life, the irascible...