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...ways, but baby boomers are also finding benefits in a brand makeover. Alan Cole, 48, has been an investment adviser in Atlanta, Texas, since 1989. Exhausted by the strain of keeping up with various investing strategies to serve his diverse client base, he hired Peter Montoya, whose firm, based in Tustin, Calif., specializes in marketing independent financial advisers. After identifying Cole's core values of family, church and hard work, plus his affinity for fishing, golf and travel, they came up with a focused brand for him: wealth planner for active retirees. Now Cole says he is "working with fewer...
...difference is that fewer and fewer women feel compelled to put up with it. The ex-husband of Li Jie, 34, a sales manager for a Shanghai trading firm, kept a mistress for years, even introducing her to his co-workers. But after Li walked in on her husband and his girlfriend in the bedroom, she ended her six-year marriage. "Women have more expectations from marriage now," she says. "They won't put up with the things their mothers or grandmothers might have, and they're not ashamed about divorce, either." (Li's name has been changed to protect...
...China's entrepreneurial classes. The number of divorce lawyers in the city has quintupled in the past five years. Detective agencies specializing in marital investigations are proliferating. Zhang Kaidong, the self-dubbed "Mistress Buster," employs former policemen, journalists, athletes and bodyguards for his three-year-old private-eye firm in Shanghai. Much of his business involves investigating assets for women who worry that their soon-to-be ex-husbands will lowball their savings in divorce court. "Before, women wouldn't fight for their share because they were so embarrassed about divorce," he says. "But it's a material world...
...answers with a firm but friendly Fijian yes. For Fraser, writing the original play was the beginning of his own belated Pacific homecoming. His subsequent play Paradise was set in a Fijian island resort in the weeks before the May 2000 coup attempt, and it was while in Suva on a writing residency in 2001 that Fraser began his screenplay for No. 2. "Fiji is still an enigma for me," he concedes. But "I figure I know what makes New Zealand tick these days, especially Mount Roskill." With its Pacific wave, New Zealand cinema is all the more refreshing...
HANOVER, N.H.—The last time Harvard faced off against Dartmouth, the Crimson offense exploded and the defense held firm in a 10-1 thrashing of the Big Green. In the season-opening rematch, the score was once again lopsided, but this time it was Harvard (0-1-0, 0-1-0 ECAC) on the short end of a 5-2 score on Friday night at Thompson Arena. With the officials calling frequent penalties, especially in the early going, it became evident that performance on the power play would play a large part in determining the final score...