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...that there were no tensions. Mormon culture, for all its energy and sterling family values, can seem triumphal and even clannish to outsiders. Ken Millard, a Latter-day Saint who is also Nauvoo's city planner, admits that even after a century's exile, some Mormon tourists exhibited "an arrogance and ownership" regarding the town. Main Street merchants traded stories about shoppers who, arriving at the checkout, inquired, "Are you a Saint?" and if the answer was no, walked out, leaving the clerk holding...
...with guns, they are doing it with money." If so, in the first of what would no doubt be many social changes, Nauvoo would probably go dry. E-mails Sonja Bush: "I own the Draft House in Nauvoo, and was informed tonight that the city planner (Mormon) referred to it as 'a place of sin.' Boy! You should have seen it. Wednesday is 'Chicken Nite' and a lot of our sinners were in their 60s to mid-80s. They were kicking up their heels and having a sinful good time...
...Capshaw, 52, is thrilled to be teaching math in a Bronx, N.Y., school district, she is aware of the price she paid for leaving American Express in 1992. "It has taken me eight years," she reports, "to catch up to the $52,000 I was making as a financial planner...
...discussion needs to remain civil, so don't blame or accuse. If your family leans toward the dysfunctional, a mediator might help--an elder-law attorney, financial planner or even a family therapist...
...legal problems for the elderly. "No decision is a decision, usually for less appropriate, more expensive services and more agony for family members." If the parents haven't disclosed any information, "it is a nightmare to unwind the details of the estate," says Michael Davis, an Orlando, Fla., financial planner. "Then the onus is on the child, who not only has lost a parent but now also has this terrible burden"--one that is both financial (paying expenses out of pocket, which may not be reimbursed for months) and emotional (guessing what a parent wanted...