When reclusive 104-year-old copper heiress Huguette Clark died last week without any heirs and her $500 million fortune under investigation, all New Yorkers wanted to hear about was what was going to happen to her $100 million Fifth Avenue palace.

The Way We Live Now: Same as ever. Hard times have been around for years now! But nobody was paying attention. The Christians were fighting unions and the yuppies were building dream homes and everyone else? Peanut butter jelly time.