By the nation's standards, Kavanaugh is decidedly wealthy, with an annual salary of $220,000 that reaches far beyond the median income for a typical U.S. household.
In 25 years, SXSW has mushroomed from a tiny music festival run by the local alt-weekly to a ten-day extravaganza attended by some 49,000 people that, together with spring-break traffic, causes unholy traffic jams on Interstate 35 into and out of Austin (and has turned those same editors into decidedly wealthy entrepreneurs).
"It's not that I don't have experience," she says, "but I worry that I'll sit across the desk at an interview, and they'll say, 'What are you experienced for?' " Now let's move 100 miles north, to Manhattan, where another lawyer, somewhat older and decidedly wealthier, has also been looking to land a new job.
In its seventh season, producers of the reality series in which contestants pitch business ideas to a panel of wealthy investors allowed several decidedly shady entrepreneurs to try their luck.
A weekly series about the prospective candidates for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination begins with Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, a wealthy candidate with a decidedly liberal voting record.
To union leaders and liberal activists in Washington, this intervention in Wisconsin is proof of the expanding role played by nonprofit groups with murky ties to wealthy corporate executives as they push a decidedly conservative agenda.
In that kind of atmosphere, what hope is there for an admissions policy that will turn away wealthier students in favor of lower-income students who may some day be wealthy (or who may parlay their compassion into selfless, and decidedly not lucrative, life work)?
Two of them — Meg Whitman, a candidate for governor, and Carly Fiorina, a candidate for Senate — have presented themselves as credible, competent and wealthy products of the corporate world in a state that, while decidedly Democratic, nonetheless seemed tired of the status quo and hungry for reform.
Even the new Ridge Hill, while offering a variety of price points, is decidedly more upscale, with a Lord & Taylor and a Whole Foods Market luring customers from Westchester's wealthier river towns, like Hastings-on-Hudson and Irvington, said Joyce Baumgarten, a spokeswoman for Forest City Ratner.
