Finishing School: So You Don't Look Like A Jerk Around Rich
People  Finishing school, once the realm of the tiny daughters
of steel magnates training for a future in rich housewifery, is
now a different animal. While finishing-school grads can still
walk like non-water buffalos and clap after the opera in a way
that doesn't cause mass monocle-poppings, the reason for
mastering the rules of decorum has changed, and one school in
Switzerland teaches its students that the road to wealth is
paved with good manners. Or, maybe more accurately, the moat
around existing superwealth is filled with obscure decorum
rules.  TIME reports that Institut Villa Pierrefeu (IVP) in
Switzerland is the last of its kind in the country, but that
business is booming, because manners are important and no one
should ever, ever, act poor.  Many elements of the school sound
ripped from the pages of an imaginary magazine called Wealthy
Stereotypes Quarterly; the palatial school overlooks Lake Geneva
and was originally built to house a ba