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Anna Wintour Orders Obama Donors To Fall In Line Becker Stays on Nan Hayworth’s ‘Acid Hurling’ Controversy PayPal Cofounder Peter Thiel Wants to Found a Libertarian Utopia in Honduras

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The Six Million Dollar Cat: Cat-astrophic Event Leads Dutch Artist to Turn Dead Pet Into Flying Artwork John Constable Painting For Sale at Christie’s Sparks Family Feud 8 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before June 10

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At Bloomberg LP, Your Colleagues Know When You're Slacking Off Cheryl Strayed's Memoir So Good Oprah Winfrey Reboots Book Club Bill Clinton, Media Critic

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HSBC Tests Greek ATMs for Compatibility With Drachma MF Global Invesitgation Focuses on Treasurer, Soros Speaks on Europe: Wall Street Roundup So Now We're Blaming JPMorgan's $2.3 Billion Trading Loss on Biology

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On the Market: Fire at 1 WTC; SLG and Hines Have 'Grand' Plans; New Hotel for NoMad Upper East Side Townhouse Tries For Twice The Price MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program Expands to Istanbul, Joining Initiatives in Rome and Santiago

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By Max Abelson 1/07/09 1:22am

Geriatric Gems

How To Live: A Search for Wisdom
From Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)
By Henry Alford
Twelve, 262 pages, $23.99

The cover of Henry Alford’s margarine-flavored book of old people’s advice starts with the misleading title, How to Live, continues with a picture of a wrinkly pooch, then hits with the Read More

By Max Abelson 1/15/07 12:00am

For Richer or Poorer: Wedded to a Life of Letters

Money is unfunny: The poor don’t chuckle about bills, titans like Donald Trump are humorless and, for most everyone else, finance is more of a sore spot than a punch line.

Despite all that—and despite its grandmotherly title—the new anthology Money Changes Everything is as funny as a lascivious sex column. Instead of CNBC Read More

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