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better to give; A warm-fuzzy mood is sweeping the blessed-by-fortune set: Ostentation is out; charity is in.
Byline: William Norwich
bserving the social world, or counting stars in the celebrity galaxy, you perhaps have noticed a change in mood lately. Bling is out; philanthropy is in.
The evidence was detectable this summer from Malibu to St.-Tropez, where the sailing rich have been railing against the nouveau riche and their polluting, fuel-guzzling
megayachts. (Larry Ellison's 452-foot Rising Sun is powered by 48,000 horsepower, not exactly very cool for the Mediterranean's fish or plankton, is it?)
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