• Even though she has a Mercedes S-Class, Winkler would rather drive to work in a fortwo Brabus or fortwo Electric Drive (read about it here), the latter of which will go on sale in the U.S. in the fourth quarter.

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  • But after four first-round defeats in the five WTA tour events that she has played in this season, she has decided to take a step down in class.

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  • "You know, Celine Dion is a great singer, but no one is saying that she has all of the style and class in the world, " Castro said.

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  • Bachmann is also fighting the troubling storyline, already gaining traction within the Iowa political class, that she has difficulty functioning outside a tightly controlled bubble of advisers and aggressive security personnel.

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  • When he does get up, he is annoyed that his wife has not yet made his breakfast, and that she has plans to attend a yoga class, which means she will leave him with a cold box lunch.

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  • When asked about the importance of education, Saira Iqbal, student of class IX, NJV High School, said enthusiastically that she is the only among her four sisters who has studied beyond class V.

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  • Kim Kline, a singer-songwriter who has taken the class, said she owns several pairs of shoes that are "gorgeous fashion statements, " but is reluctant to wear them because she feels off-balance.

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  • When your child is the only kid in her class without an implant and she has the lowest test scores to prove it, will you agree to put her under the knife?

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  • Beckham has never tried to hide her celebrity, nor has she ever quite shed her lower-class roots, which just seemed more amplified by the way she showed off her newly acquired wealth through broadcasting her designer labels through monogrammed bags, labeled Ts and the Burberry check.

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  • Not really, says Hudson, although she recognizes the fact that Brazil has a growing middle class and that trend is not reversing.

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  • Attendance in Lynda Nero's class has improved dramatically this year, she said, after the mascot program helped parents realize her prekindergarten classroom isn't simply the day-care program they may have envisioned.

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  • The wonder mare, who even has her own Twitter handle, has not just won all 24 of her races -- with the exception of Britain's Royal Ascot she has won them by staggering margins, destroying world-class fields to become one of the top-rated race horses on the planet.

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  • Yvette Johnson has already picked out a computer-spreadsheet class she wants to take during her daily noon-to-2 p.m. break, and she's aiming for management.

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  • The wonder mare, who even has her own Twitter handle, has not just won all 25 of her races -- with the exception of Britain's Royal Ascot she has won them by staggering margins -- destroying world-class fields to become one of the world's top-rated race horses.

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  • But many rural and working-class whites adore her, and resent the way she has been ridiculed.

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  • The collection, named "BJ Kicks A, " veered from the high school dance party looks that she has championed for decades, running toward a junior high school gym class with a lot of cheek.

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  • Her team will be anxiously studying the opinion polls over the next few days, to see what effect - if any - the Mark Penn controversy has had on those working class voters, on whom she is depending for victory.

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  • Ms. Wilborne says that in the past she has always ordered the smallest available package because she wants her son's class photo.

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  • She has been told that her school is hopeless, but the other day after class she went to the public library and typed up a letter to the people sitting in this room.

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  • If an upper middle-class girl has one or more African parents, for example, she has likely schooled in the United States or Europe -- maybe even a generation after her own parents have.

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  • She has friends, she gets out a lot, she plays cards and takes a current events class.

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  • She is a management consultant brought up in a middle-class suburb of Montreal who a friend has described as "one of the boys".

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  • Karla Savina, one of three Americans in her 57-person class in the Applied Finance program at Pepperdine University's business school, says she has learned about Chinese culture, and adds that her hardworking classmates have pushed her academically.

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  • She has a very strong and important coalition for Democrats to win which is, you know, working class whites who, you know, tend to be historic, historically have been swing voters in elections, and so for any Democrat to win they need to do well and in a down economy, Democrats are poised to do well with that group.

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  • She has never been elected to public office, but she is very much part of the city's political upper class, having worked for two mayors, Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young.

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  • Elena, who had enjoyed her status as the cleverest girl in the class, has to fall in behind the brilliant Lila, who is as smart at school as she is on the street: she comes in first on all the tests, and can do complicated calculations in her head.

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