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The path to riches usually starts with a family business. To use private-banker jargon, the Patriarch founds the company (they never say Matriarch) and then passes it to the Next Generation and then maybe to “Gen 3.” Inevitably, the family members start fighting and the business goes under or is sold for a Liquidity Event. [...]

IF change is as good as a holiday then why do my family holidays invariably end up in the same place? If we go overseas, we go to New York. If we go to the beach, we go to Rosedale on the NSW south coast. If we go camping, we go to Treachery on the [...]

Pravdaby Edward DocxMariner/Houghton Mifflin,395 pages, $15.95
Leo Tolstoy put in most famously at the opening of Anna Karenina: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Tolstoy, along with Charles Dickens and (most indelibly) Fyodor Dostoevsky, is among the 19th-century students of family discord shadowing the pages of Edward Docx’s Pravda, [...]

We have a child, whom my husband adores and who feels the same way about him. He becomes very distressed if either of us are away, particularly if he has to stay alone in the house. He has no friends and had no relationships before me, so my heart bleeds for him and I fear [...]

The scale of Giuliani’s collapse from his 20-point lead over his nearest rival last summer to third place in Tuesday’s Florida primary was evident at the beginning of the week.He stopped off at various airfields round Florida for rallies that had long been organised by his staff, intended to be the high point of his [...]

In 1939 he briefly considered becoming a pacifist, but decided against it and joined up. He was mentioned in dispatches, probably for his skill in maintaining morale. In 1946 he married his cousin, Joan Hart. They had a wonderfully close and happy family life.Patrick mostly worked as a salesman. In 1975 he and Joan set [...]

The other positive thing is that being a feminist should give you a strong sense of self-worth, something that will help you not just now, but throughout your life. And as a feminist, one of the most basic codes of conduct is to respect yourself. First, then, you have to ask: are you really doing [...]