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Certainly, there are common traits, say the authors. Central to understanding today's superwealthy (average age: 47) is recognizing their essentially middle-class mind-set. Less than 5% inherited their wealth. In fact, say the authors, "they are undeniable proof that the American Dream of unrestricted social mobility in a single lifetime is alive and well." They are usually practitioners of what this book refers to as "stealth wealth--having money, but keeping it under the radar...
...beginning of their shifts describe their work as tough, lonely and often sordid. Ivana, a 27-year-old Dutch woman, says she began working as a prostitute after spending two years in jail and finding no other employment when she got out. Now, she says, "I switch my mind to zero when I work." Irina, a petite Ukrainian, says she has made "a lot of money" after 10 years working in De Wallen and continues to attract steady business from "men who are alone and scared." Despite her long experience as a prostitute, she has kept her work a secret...
When Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as his running mate, he surely had Scranton, Pennsylvania, on his mind. Biden, Delaware's senior Senator, was born in this former coal-mining town two hours north of Philadelphia - a point made countless times during his anointment as the Democratic Party's Vice Presidential candidate. To win the crucial swing state, Obama needs help in towns like Scranton, where Hillary Clinton won 74% of the vote in the Democratic primary and where many are still offended by Obama's remarks about "bitter" small town Pennsylvania voters...
...down isn't the point," he wrote in the essay "Clutter" in the late '60s; "the point is sticking to the material as it is, rather than drooling over behind-the-camera feats of engineering." Anyway, it was impossible to mistake his authorial personality - or, rather, his restless mind and outsize intelligence. When I knew Manny, his receding hairline gave him a forehead as high as Jeff Morrow the Metalunan's in This Island Earth, and inside this gigantic braincase all manner of creatures crawled, gnawed and sang...
...mind of U.S. officials, the emerging "troop withdrawal" deal between Iraq and the United States would apparently look much like the many agreements the U.S. has with other countries around the world hosting U.S. forces. But five years of war and occupation have left many Iraqi leaders reluctant to accept what the U.S. considers standard practice for U.S. forces overseas: immunity from prosecution in foreign courts. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki himself suggested that blanket U.S. military immunity in Iraq was not in line with Iraqi visions for a new agreement governing the American military presence in the country...