Archive for July 8th, 2008

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Warren Zevon

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is not your average music biography. In the days before his death, Zevon asked his ex-wife to not only publish his triumphs but every piece of dirt she could dig up. There was plenty of dirt, too – the more publicized exploits of Behind the Music faves Mötley Crüe and Guns and Roses pale next to the stories told in the 450-page book.

8Jul2008 | Scott Hudson | 0 comments | Continued
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Retiring Right

Experts agree that wealth alone is no guarantee of retirement security; saving too little “runs up and down the income scale and wealth scale,” says Olivia S. Mitchell, an insurance and risk-management professor at Wharton. Comfortable living inevitably translates to spending. Though the wealthy save, Mitchell explained in the Wharton study, “people with high earnings also spend a lot” to keep the lifestyle they enjoy going.

8Jul2008 | Jennifer Sherman | 0 comments | Continued