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...Saturday, April 18, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez publicly handed President Obama a copy of Eduardo Galeano's seminal left-leaning tome on the foreign exploitation of Latin America. By Monday, April 20, the book - first published in 1971 - had skyrocketed to #2 on Amazon.com's bestseller list. It seems as though the Venezuelan leader, a shrewd showman, knew that his gift would draw attention not just to the book itself, but to the dramatic tale told within...
...managing money wisely would be to not pay a lot for things you could get cheaper elsewhere. But, according to Worth, you'd be wrong. The personal-finance magazine is raising its newsstand cover price in May to $20. That is, unless you're on Worth's special list of 110,000 extremely wealthy people, in which case you get the magazine for free. (How does that song go? "The rich get richer and the poor get Kiplinger...
...course, it's a strategy to get to advertisers (and the press) too. If the only people who are perusing your magazine are those on the moneybags list, those who can afford $20 for a magazine and those who hop on private jets - the magazine is being placed in private airports too - you can argue that you've really cut out the riffraff readers. Then again, getting the magazine and reading it are not at all the same thing. (Plus, isn't this what breeds resentment against the wealthy? They who need it least get stuff - information, perks, taxpayer bailouts...
Best of this weekend's house list appeals...
Before the recession hit, establishing a presence in the Persian Gulf was fast becoming the “in” thing for American universities: Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in Doha, New York University in Abu Dhabi, Michigan State University in Dubai—the list goes on and on. So being the global, ambitious, and well-endowed institution that it is, it’s no surprise that Harvard is keeping up with the times...