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...resentment of the rich players and the richer owners is nothing new. But this time, it seems like fans are beginning to see the game not as an escape from the world's aggravations, but a source of them...
...book while, at the same time, countless numbers of men and women have died and suffered lifelong trauma because of his incompetent leadership while serving as the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. As a 45-year-old non-veteran it irritates me that McNamara will become even richer by promoting his book while others still suffer with every tick of the clock...
...debate is local-and intensely heated. "We've looked at the issue of equity over the years, and we've been stymied,'' says Bob Early, principal of the Taylor Ranch School in Venice, Florida, which raises about $20,000 annually. "This is a case of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Parents want their efforts to benefit their kids, and any program to redistribute funds is not at all popular...
Heady as that might seem at first, it may not be enough. "Life in the real world," Stoll writes, "is far more interesting, far more important, far richer, than anything you'll ever find on a computer screen." His advice to anyone spending more than a few hours online per day: Get out of the house! Meet your neighbors face to face! Grow tomatoes! Turn the computer off, for heaven's sake...
...Richer, busier and more celebrated than ever, supermodels do not need the meager $5,000 or so the New York shows offer them for an appearance. (The major European designers, by contrast, pay up to $25,000.) They have better-or at least more lucrative-things to do with their time. Supermodels today reap millions of dollars in advertising contracts; they lend their names to clothing lines, host TV shows, star in movies. From the gossip columns to the Oscar preshow promenade, they are stealing the limelight from Hollywood's film goddesses...