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There are also people at Harvard who are not well-off (though few compared to the outside world), and they have a legitimate reason to seek well-paying jobs. Graduates whose families have never attained economic security understandably want or need what they did not have growing up and may need to repay years of family sacrifice by sending money home...
...their name to pump up the stock--are doomed to Home Shopping status within a year. They include Cybershop, Ktel and Marketguide. But the real Internet companies, like AOL and Yahoo, offer something different. They can sell ads for luxury cars and discount brokers that will reach well-off people, at work and at home, much more efficiently than either TV or off-line, dead-tree media. Wall Street understands that the best Net stocks are bargains, based on projected ad sales...
...taxes will be collected by Montpelier and sent back to the towns in the form of block grants of $5,000 per student. In a state where local control is taken for granted, such a change would be galling enough. But the law has made it nearly impossible for well-off towns to maintain their school quality by raising money locally. The 41 "gold" towns have been told they must share all the property-tax revenue they raise (no matter how much) with 211 "receiver" towns--giving away in many places as much as 60[cents]to 70[cents...
...well-off Vermont towns like Dorset, where the property-tax rate will go up nearly 35[cents] per $100 of property value, Act 60 has been met with fury and defiance. The elementary school principal quit when she was forced to let teachers go and scale back art and music classes. Last year the Inn at Willow Pond, a major corporate conference center, gave $25,000 to charity. This year, when the charities called, "we told 'em to call Montpelier--all that money went to Act 60 taxes," says owner Ron Bauer. Even angrier are affluent parents who moved...
...Marsden Hartley, was one of the finest talents of the early years of American modernism, part of the circle of painters whose hearth was the little 291 gallery in New York City and whose tireless promoter, supporter and voice in the desert was Alfred Stieglitz. Dove's father, a well-off Geneva, N.Y., brick manufacturer, expected his son to be a lawyer and never wholly forgave him for becoming an artist. To Dove, as to the more conflicted Hartley, Stieglitz was mentor, friend and (virtually) a second father. Starting before World War I, Dove's slow-maturing, thoughtful and deeply...