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Acquiring what money can't buy

From Time, here's the Luxury A-Z Guide: The people, places and products that are now influencing the luxury business and inspiring savvy consumers around the world. A review of Taste: Acquiring What Money Can't Buy by Letitia Baldrige. A review of Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions by Edward Ugel. From Forbes, a review of: All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make — and Spend — Their Fortunes; and fifteen minutes of infamy: If everyone's entitled to their quarter-hour in the limelight, here's some tips of how to get there — or not? (and a look at twelve famous nobodies) Yours for the peeping: Living on display in a YouTube, Facebook, glass-apartment world can make people feel connected — or ogled. Tyranny of choice: To be able to choose your path in life, you must have a sense of what attracts you, of something calling you. The agony and the everyday: For 35 years Lucy Kellaway dreamed of becoming an agony aunt. Now, the FT’s management columnist analyses what our problems reveal about ourselves — and her. The self-help backlash gathers steam: A review of The Oprah PhenomenonCorrect behavior for the modern mobster: Among the papers of a newly arrested Mafia boss is a typewritten code of conduct, including a loyalty oath and "guidelines" for good manners.