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Over the next few days, almost every household in America will receive a simple form, seven questions long, in the mail...
Then came Greenspan's second blow. He suggested that stock prices ought to rise no more than household income, or about 5% to 6%, to help keep spending in check. It's a mutinous thought to investors who are used to having an annual double-digit jump in their portfolio...
...page reference book Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, published by Scribner last November, is in its eighth printing. There are 180,000 copies of it loose in the world, and readers, mostly women, are torn. Many find it a handy, even revolutionary guide to household tasks our mothers never taught us, while others see it as antifeminist, barefoot-in-the-kitchen propaganda, gleefully pointing out that Mendelson recommends cleaning the kitchen floor on one's hands and knees. (Yet among the reader reviews on Amazon.com one male fan of the book commented, "Since...
...arrival I got a look at the animal life in the Wise household: a friendly tortoise-shell cat, Alice; Marbury Madison, the ears-akimbo German shepherd/Rhodesian ridgeback mix who looks like a cringing, neurotic mess; and the 26-month-old Wise twins, Christopher and Siena, holy terrors known in the family as "the soldiers of entropy...
What Harvard students will get out of the program is a realization that Ivy League degrees are as rare in this world as atlases in the George W. Bush household. Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple admire it as another, brighter world. Knowing them and what they think of the opportunity you've got, it'll be a lot harder to whine about Group II. Out in the Real World, you'll hear what someone should have told you since your first day in the Yard...