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Even by Silicon Valley standards, life at Google is ridiculously cool. The 120 employees at the two-story office block off Route 101 known as the Googleplex have everything a well-to-do West Coaster could wish for: full-time masseuse, yoga classes, all the Ben and Jerry bars they can eat and organic catering by the guy who used to do meals for the Grateful Dead. The only table in the boardroom is for Ping-Pong. There's pool, shuffleboard, two pianos, twice-weekly hockey games, K'nex models for the nerd set--which is everyone--and even...
Still concerned about the privileged getting too big a break? Take solace in the fact that the current repeal bill would hit the superrich with an additional levy on capital gains that common folk will never see. So it would not be a total free ride for the well-to-do, while for small-business owners, it would be welcome relief...
...lapse of attention: "We were obsessed"--he might have said afflicted--"with having the highest quality shows and the highest quality audiences, and because of that we weren't as aggressive on [reality TV] as we could have been." In English: Frasier, Friends and Will & Grace were attracting the well-to-do young viewers advertisers cherish, and reality be damned...
...reckless bravado during a boating trip leads to an accident that leaves his wife paralyzed. Civil Wars (1984) portrays a liberal married couple in Mississippi who receive custody of the two children of Klan-supporting, racist in-laws, killed in a car crash. In Before and After (1992), well-to-do parents discover that their son has murdered his girlfriend. In each book, the page-turning question becomes, Then what...
...anger over family-centric policies at two companies, she ignores a finding in the same study--by Mary B. Young for the William Olsten Center for Workforce Strategies--that there was in fact no difference in the number of hours worked by parents and nonparents. Similarly, Burkett profiles a well-to-do mother who claims child-care tax credits for a job undertaken for "stimulation" but fails to acknowledge that even in the current economic boom, few dual-salary parents can relinquish half their household income without painful consequences. Suggesting that work is a luxury rather than a necessity...