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...Xiqun, 22, runs a tiny shop selling soft drinks, beer, toothpaste, hot sauce, instant noodles, cooking oil and toothpaste. She and her 28-year-old fiancé had planned to marry this year. Then the earthquake struck, flattening their house and burying their wedding nest egg, which they had just withdrawn from the bank. At the time, money was the last thing on Luo's mind. "I wanted to live," she says, as she stands inside her store wearing a puffy orange jacket to ward off the chill. "No one else in the same building made it out, but somehow...
...Thicke will perform. Add to that a new 40,000-square-foot spa (where you can warm the marble of your Turkish hamam bed), an adjoining hotel-condo tower, upscale restaurants, clubs and boutiques as well as spectacular lobby chandeliers created by Ai Weiwei, who designed the Bird's Nest stadium for the Beijing Olympics, and you've got a bash the cast of Entourage would die for. (See pictures of the 2008 Beijing Olympics...
...there's no shortage of guidance when it comes to transferring assets from one generation to the next. Harder to come by is advice for parents on how to bequeath to their children not just a fat inheritance, but also the values and work ethic that produced their nest eggs in the first place. "So many wealthy families don't know anything about raising kids in a healthy environment," says Thayer Willis, author of Navigating the Dark Side of Wealth: A Life Guide for Inheritors. The daughter of multimillion-dollar parents herself, Willis says she was a "spoiled brat...
...seniors work their balls off,” says freshman forward Andrew Van Nest. “People like Pusar work so hard. The little weaknesses that he has, you don’t even see them. He feels like a superstar on the court. Seeing that is contagious...
...picked to finish fourth in the Ivy League in the preseason media poll. The players are not focused on the ranking, though.“We were brought here to win an Ivy championship and that’s our goal,” freshman forward Andrew Van Nest says.Van Nest was one of the Crimson’s top recruits, but the 6’10” forward, who hails from nearby Weston, Mass., will not set foot on the court this year because of a shoulder injury suffered last week that will require season-ending surgery.He...