The first, from the NYT style section detailed the new trend in super high end cocktails, breathlessly detailing things like the Seablue restaurant's martini made with super-premium vodka and Beluga caviar for $275 or Duvet's off-the-menu drink made with aged cognacs, vintage Champagnes and garnished with a vanilla orchid petal - for an astounding: $1,500. (The club says it has sold five or six Duvet Passions since introducing the drink Valentine's Day.)
The second describes a study of charitable giving. It finds that working-age Americans who make $50,000 to $100,000 a year are two to six times more generous in the share of their investment assets that they give to charity than those Americans who make more than $10 million. The least generous of all working-age Americans were the young and prosperous - the 285 taxpayers age 35 and under who made more than $10 million - and the 18,600 taxpayers making $500,000 to $1 million. The top group had on average $101 million of investment assets while the other group had on average $2.4 million of investment assets.
On average these two groups made charitable gifts equal to 0.4 percent of their assets, while people the same age who made $50,000 to $100,000 gave gifts equal to more than 2.5 percent of their investment assets, six times that of their far wealthier peers.
Let them drink Louis XIII.
my controversial book about a day in my life as Public Defender in the South Bronx is finally available for Kindle and Ipad.
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"...to the end that human rights shall be held to be more sacred than property interests..."
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