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...percent from 2001 to 2002, swelled by throngs of students unable to find employment after graduating from college. Law school’s appeal is obvious: like the fondly remembered investment banking and consulting jobs of the 1990s, law seems like a quick way to six-figure salaries, swank city apartments and imported cars that so gracefully accessorize a Harvard diploma...
...figure-salary-swank-apartment-imported-car version of post-Harvard-graduation life is seductive; part of me deeply envies my classmates who, reading the Wall Street Journal with pens in hand, are poised to embrace it. I wish I were poised to embrace something. Under the heading “Living With Indecision,” the OCS’ guide reminds the aimless among us, “Keep in mind that you are not looking for the perfect lifetime job….There is no ‘wrong’ first job if you learn something from...
...conditioned cinemas or those pricey double-wide refrigerators (many of which chill a nice bottle of Riesling and not much else)? Arianna Huffington, the columnist who helped start the Detroit Project--the group with the ads saying SUVs support terrorism--says that whenever she is invited to a swank gala, she has a chauffeur take the wheel of her gas-sipping Toyota Prius. We weren't rude enough to ask how heavy her chauffeur is, but his extra body weight is burning extra fuel, some of which may be coming from Persian Gulf nations that may have funneled money...
...diet, however, cheese has become a stylish health food, and no eatery has done more to raise fondue's gourmet profile than New York City's Artisanal, a shrine to cheese with a dozen fondues on its menu. Now the molten dip is turning up at all sorts of swank spots, including San Francisco's Luna Park, Los Angeles' Vine and New York City's Chateau. Ohba, a fusion restaurant in Chicago, serves lobster tempura with Brie fondue. And in London, celebs such as Kate Moss and Stella McCartney are regulars at the Tiroler Hut, where the fondue is served...
...Touring these swank digs, it's hard to remember that this is the same city where 15 years ago the richest folks found delight simply in a new icebox. The pace of change in Shanghai (double-digit growth rates for the past decade) is so rapid that my real estate agent had upgraded her Nokia cell phone between our first and second meetings?the third mobile she'd got in as many months. Sure, most people aren't living in the ch?teaus of Shanghai, but incomes have increased so fast that 60% of the city's households now own their...