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...SmallWorld member convinces at least five other members to agree to join his network, he gains the privilege of inviting outsiders to join the website. If you get the nod, you can then access free information (vetted by fellow members) that varies from limo services and nightclubs to yacht brokers. But that's only a part of the website's appeal. Wachtmeister wants his ?lites to mingle, which means scouring the members list for people you know and asking them to join your network. This allows for the rather obscene I'll-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me-yours...
Instead of crocodile handbags, boomers are buying time-shares in expensive resorts, building media rooms in their homes and investing in elaborate renovations. They're also buying mega-yachts and accessing private air travel. The sale of mega-yachts--boats 80 ft. and longer--has more than doubled in the last decade. Demand is so high that even if you wanted to shell out $50 million for a yacht, you might have to wait: most of the best-known boatyards are booked through next year and into 2006. Marquis Jet, a company that enables customers to buy access...
...guides assure us, though a painful one, for the Gordon, its waters released from a huge dam upstream, is even icier than the Franklin. The Gordon is flat and featureless in comparison, and by the time we reach the jetty where we're to be picked up by a yacht the next day, we're already missing the Franklin's language of fury and flow. Hot showers and beers are close, but there's more sadness than euphoria as we deflate our faithful rafts. The river has let us pass, but at a price - not in weariness or bruises...
...acquire early on a commitment to serious public service. His detractors tell the story of an effete snob who "looks French" and can't possibly understand the concerns of average Americans. An ad by the conservative group Citizens United mocked Kerry for his $75 haircuts and million-dollar yacht and closed on this note: "Another rich, liberal elitist from Massachusetts who claims he's a 'man of the people' ... Priceless...
...Harvard endowment is big, and as successful as it is, they could afford to give us all a 10-percent raise,” Jaeger said. “I’d go one further—they could actually afford to buy us each a yacht, but it’s not clear that that would be fair, or that that would be the right thing to do with the University’s resources...