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Stressed Wall Street titans splurging on lap dances, spas

The Dow is tanking, the world is despairing, and, despite the financial Armageddon, a Manhattan strip club has rolled out a $1,000 lap dance.

The thing is, there may actually be takers. New Yorkers, especially finance-industry types, are under so much stress that they're holding onto guilty and costly -- pleasures.

"In times of stress we're exceptionally vulnerable to excess whether...

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