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...disparity? Is it because rock is inherently rebellious and therefore anti-conservative? Is it because Republicans, according to some studies, have more sex than Democrats and therefore don't need to join or listen to rock bands to prove they're cool? Is it because their smart parents told them you can't make enough money to reap the rewards of tax breaks by starting a band in your garage...
Countless books tell you how you can get filthy rich and join the wealthiest 1% of the U.S. population. But less energy has been expended on assessing the attitudes of that fortunate demographic. The three market researchers behind this book are seeing The Millionaire Next Door and raising it $4 million. By interviewing 6,000 people with liquid assets of at least $5 million, they have written a comprehensive book that statistically defines this well-heeled group. You might not be one of them, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy their peculiarities--or learn how to sell...
...Driving home his personal biography, of course, is a central aim of the convention that Obama will finally join on Wednesday. Obama says his aim there is twofold. "I want to make the choice between myself and John McCain as clear as possible. I don't want people to be confused," he says. "And I also hope that the convention conveys who I am. You know, during the course of a 19-month campaign, you're on the television screen, you're in big auditoriums, but sometimes who you are may get lost. And I want people to come...
...Everyone had said at the time that the best young organizer in Chicago was Barack," says Paul Schmitz, CEO of Public Allies. The group invited Obama to join their board. But when they started to look for someone to head up the Chicago office, Obama recommended his fiancée and resigned when the nonprofit began to court her in earnest. "At a time when the average age of our staff was 23, she was like drafting Brett Favre for the Packers," Schmitz says. "Michelle was 29 when we hired her. She had a law degree from Harvard, had worked...
...retaken that position, according to European intelligence sources. "The degree to which Islamist extremists around the world have dropped their previous obsession with Iraq and now focus on the Afghan-Pakistan area has been astounding," says one French counter-terrorism official. "No one recruiting for or seeking to join jihadist fighting in Europe are trying to get to Iraq: it's all Afghanistan now," he reports "No one raising money for jihad is directing funds to Iraq, either. The Afghan-Pakistan region has regained the power of attraction it had prior to September...