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    Slideshow • Economy • ISSUE 46•24 • Jun 15, 2010
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    • Socialites Without Borders Teach Rwandans How To Mingle

      KIGALI, RWANDA—
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    • Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequence

      SOMERSET, NJ—"It’s frightening to think I was so close to learning how society works outside the protected sphere of wealth and privilege," said Charles Wentworth.
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    • Rich Guy Feeling Left Out Of Recession

      WILTON, CT—"It's just not fair," said the 49-year-old real estate developer and grandson of oil baron Duncan Chandler. "Everyone is worrying about an uncertain future and coming together to express their outrage, and I don’t get to be a part of it."
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    • Report: Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization

      WASHINGTON—The report claims that affordable upper-income condominiums and charming faux dive bars are being replaced with the manor houses and private salons.
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    • Rich Thrill-Seeker Takes The Bus

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    • Inner-City Stabbings Leave Five Maidless

      CHICAGO—A string of inner-city stabbings left five residents of Chicago's wealthy Highland Park suburb maidless this weekend.
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    • Reaganomics Finally Trickles Down To Area Man

      BANGOR, ME—
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    • New Law Forces CEOs To Humbly Shrug Before Receiving Massive Bonuses

      WASHINGTON—The crackdown follows the 2010 bonus season, during which not one CEO was observed to look at the floor meekly, sink his hands into his pockets, or dig his right toe awkwardly into the ground before taking some of the estimated $55 billion in payouts.
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    • Nation's Wealthiest One Percent Demands Minority Status

      WASHINGTON, DC—America's billionaire yacht-owners are just asking for a level playing field.
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    • CEO's Marital Duties Outsourced To Mexican Groundskeeper

      GROSSE POINTE, MI—The Reinhardt's groundskeeper Jorge offered wife Melanie a very attractive package.
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