Article: `The Nanny Diaries,' `The Stone Monkey' and `2nd Chance'.

Byline: Oline H. Cogdill

``The Nanny Diaries'' by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, read by Julia Roberts; Random House Audio ($25, abridged, three cassettes, five hours)

One of the reasons we love to hear about the exceedingly bad behavior of the super rich is it makes us feel a bit more comfortable knowing that vast fortunes still can't buy happiness, love or even good taste. Who can't help but feel a bit more smug about being middle class after reading about the exploits of some of the Kennedys, Claus and Sunny von Bulow and any of the Enron executives. Admit it, there's a perverse pleasure in knowing that key testimony against Leona Helmsley in her ...

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