If my financial plan is my benchmark, then I can look and see, based on how much I need to have on my portfolio at any point in time, how am I doing relative to that?

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But seeing how well I am doing selling traditional Maasai jewelry and clothing he is starting to respect my choice.

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Instead of checking out the Latin dance lessons, I am pondering how Club Med is doing as a business.

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"I have this idea for a project I'm doing in the desert, and it's going to show you how crazy I am, " he says, launching into a description of Lee Grant's house in the movie, specifically the "kind of amazing" Indian print and bamboo bedroom in which Warren Beatty, the house-call hairdresser, sleeps with Carrie Fisher, who plays Grant's teenage daughter.

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This is NOT an exercise in which I am accusing anyone of any wrong-doing, but merely an exercise in how people are connected to each other.

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