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...Illinois (she later finished her degree) and spent six years waitressing in Berkeley, Calif. After losing $50,000 she had been lent to a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, she became a Merrill broker herself. She launched her own financial-planning company in 1987 and then wrote her first book, You've Earned It, Don't Lose It, which became a best seller. She has made her mark offering commonsense advice tailored to people, especially women, who aren't financially sophisticated. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...even managed to win the hearts of the people with a mega-popular television show. Yet his weakness for power and narcissistic self-obsession twisted his personage beyond any other explanation but one: a demon.“The Conqueror,” Jan Kjaerstad’s second book in a trilogy that also includes “The Seducer” and “The Discoverer,” doesn’t spin a single yarn so much as weave from several. This web struggles to trace back, through the events of Jonas’ life...
...Madelyn M. Ho ’08, who signed on with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, a New York City contemporary dance group.Emily R. Kaplan ’08-’09 was awarded $3,000 last year to take a class about children’s book illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design over the summer.“I’m not done yet,” the Social Anthropology concentrator says, laughing nervously, adding that her target audience consists of six- to eight-year-olds. “It’s probably...
...Smarter tourists fly over the Pu'u 'O'o vent itself, which if you hit it right can be one of the most spectacular shows on earth. Check on the current flows with the U.S. National Park Service, www.nps.gov/havo, and then book a flight out of nearby Hilo with Blue Hawaiian Helicopters, www.bluehawaiian.com. There's great accommodation at Hale Ohia, www.haleohia.com, a collection of antique cottages just outside the park. Go for a long hike, then soak in an outdoor Japanese furo tub under tsugi pines. You may have just seen volcanic hell, but you'll feel like...
...Mutannabi Street is named for Abu Tayeb al-Mutannabi (1915-65), a famously fierce and brilliant poet from Kufa, south of Baghdad. "The most noble place in the world is the saddle of a fast horse," he wrote in one poem, "and the best companion ever is a book." It may be that copiers are of greater value than horses in Baghdad these days, but one wonders what Mutannabi would have made of the street that bears his name...