But the party's margin is expected to be much smaller in the revived Kensington, which retains poor areas of Notting Hill in the north but loses some of the rich south.

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But just as Notting Hill's reputation threatened to reach a nadir, the rich began to infiltrate the area.

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Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott on Friday questioned the wisdom of a suggestion by a fellow Republican that former President Clinton be called to Capitol Hill to explain his last-minute pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich.

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Also participating were existing investors including Sutter Hill Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Concur Technologies, Felicis Ventures, and Expedia founder Rich Barton, former Expedia CEO Erik Blachford and Spencer Rascoff, CEO of Zillow.

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Walk past Athens' chichi boutique, bluntly called Rich Bitch--or watch middle-class Athenians enjoy a leisurely lunch of grilled octopus on Lykavitos Hill--and it's clear that new wealth is not just being made but enjoyed.

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Having fallen on hard times, he was living down the hill in Kentish Town, then a low-lying, poor village between London and Hampstead which the rich preferred to gallop through as fast as possible.

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