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...that goes for the rich man's heirs too. "Old money" no longer has much hold on the American imagination, and "nouveau riche" is no longer an insult (especially among the nouveau not-so-riche). Nobody wants to be like the Europeans anymore, especially since we got so much richer than them. Nobody likes a rich kid. And the dot-com gold rush, however short-lived, only reinforced the idea that America is supposed to be the land of opportunity...
...last gasp of liberalism," replies White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. Republican polling indicates that as the economy cools, middle-class Americans are warming to Bush's plan - even if the rich get richer. "They want a tax cut," says GOP pollster David Winston, "to help the economy so it enhances their job security." Democrats sense this as well, so they're fortifying their attacks with a tax cut of their own. They'll dump the "targeted" tax cuts Gore pushed during the campaign, which "were a mistake," says California representative Ellen Tauscher, new vice chair of the centrist Democratic Leadership...
...Genevieve Field, the company's co-founder, claims that her company intended all along to commit to print its fleshy pictorials and ooh-la-la advice columns. Having built up a readership--and a lookership--on the Internet, Nerve intends to stretch out on paper with longer articles and richer photo spreads. At its launch six months ago, the magazine claimed a circulation of 50,000. Now it's around 70,000. In some ways, Nerve's print edition is an improvement on its electronic version. For one thing, the naughty pictures are much crisper...
...books but also sweatshirts, dolls and an increasing array of paraphernalia that bore the image and form of the characters in the books - an old idea called "licensing" that "Peanuts" products would turn into a global phenomenon, bringing in $1 billion a year to United Features and making Schulz richer than any popular artist in the world. USING A CROW-QUILL PEN DIPPED in ink, Schulz drew every day through the next three decades. He always worked alone, without a team of assistants. For a self-doubting perfectionist - Schulz referred to himself as a fanatic - the strip cartoon...
...true in the second movement scherzo, which features tutti chords interrupted by outbursts from a string quartet within the orchestra. Corigliano takes advantage of full string sections to provide a more dense and elaborate solution to aleatoric passages. Having double basses with low C-string extensions also adds a richer, fuller sound to the piece...