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Vicky Ward

Manhattan’s latest parental punishment

I have seldom been as relieved to read an article as one that appeared last week by New York Times writer Andrew Das

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The Big Apple is learning to live again

THE Russian businessman I was having a drink with lived in London. "I prefer London to New York right now; in London not everyone talks about their depleted bank balance; in New York everyone does," he said. I agreed

Sex appeal takes years to master

DETAILS magazine has dictated that the sexiest woman on the planet is not Scarlett Johansson, or Gisele Bundchen, but Jennifer Aniston — who is 40

If we ‘kill the rich’, don’t we kill the dream?

MY neighbour at dinner, a hedge-fund manager originally from Texas, was emphatic

The guillotine hasn't arrived here - yet

These days it's not just financial journalists who follow the movements of financiers. So, too, do the entertainment channels and press

Pity the poor Englishman in Manhattan

My English friend was worried. “I guess the next step is getting American-accent lessons,” she said over dinner the other night

The price of a teddy bear picnic – £50,000

New York’s latest financial criminal mastermind — and remember, we now have one a day being unveiled — is Paul Greenwood, 61, the bow-tied town governor of North Salem, New York’s horsey area

Let frivolous fashion defy the NY blues

New York Fashion Week is here - and, as Lela Rose, the Texan designer, says as she threads her needle and fits her models, "the show must go on"

Bad times bring out the best in Manhattan

Another day, another one bites the dust. Friends everywhere are losing their jobs.

Cloud-cuckoo-land on Wall Street

“How much should a Wall Street CEO get paid?” The question got bandied around on Thursday night at dinner — by a bunch of Wall Street CEOs.

Take that smug smile off Madoff now

Today prosecutors will make their case that Bernard Madoff should be jailed for violation of bail conditions

Parent trap with harpoons thrown in

If the recession doesn't kill you, parenthood will. That has been my experience over the New Year

Haggling my way through the blues

I wish I could say that this holiday season has felt as cheerful as usual. But the emptiness in New York's streets and stores both on December 24th and 26th merely amplified the depressing retail statistics

Just don’t tell us what your manicure costs

"What recession?" shouted the front page of the New York Post last week, beside a picture of a blonde Swedish countess, Marie Douglas-David

Spot the next Madoff is our new parlour game

IT BEGAN with the names of corporate victims who had lived high on debt, such as Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone, casino king Sheldon Adelson and Lehman president Joe Gregory

With her legs, Palin didn't need a makeover

Just when I'd hoped Sarah Palin would disappear from public consciousness, it seems we can't get rid of the former Republican vice-presidential candidate

For one fearful moment I long for home

On the eve of Thanksgiving, the TV screens filled with the terrible footage of the attacks on Mumbai

For some, this crisis is on another planet

We're told a global recession of almost Depression proportions is taking place, fragmenting the social hierarchy

Cancel Christmas - sorry, but no one gets anything this year

Given that it hasn't yet got properly cold here, it feels like a very strange hallucination

My night of joy, then exhaustion dawns

For a moment last week, around midnight on Tuesday, we all went mad with joy

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