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The Rich R Different

 Reader: the rich are different than you and I. For one thing they keep getting richer. But that’s not the only good news. The days when the rich were content to sit around grooming theircorgies and watching their portfolios blossom are over. Today’s wealthy want to give back, using their wealth, or at least a small part of it, to address the pressing issues of the day. There’s just one teensy, weensy catch. No messing with the systemthat put them on the right side of the have/have not equation. Darling—it simply isn’t done!

These days, the cause du jour of the day is the wealth gap, the vast gulf that has opened up between the nation’s wealthiest children and the growing number of children in poverty.Did I say wealth gap? How very gauche of me. I meant the achievement gap between white students and their minority peers which has been narrowing steadily since the 1970′s. Today, one would be hard pressed to find a person of means who is not directing