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...after Katrina, some people are crazy enough to be buying back into New Orleans. Whole swaths of the city may still be covered in caked mud and mold, but prices are up in areas like Uptown with its historic homes and Downtown with its contemporary lofts. KB Homes has model homes open in the suburbs...
...collective improvisation" that worked to create New Orleans jazz is not a model for the new city, Butler said. "What happens in music doesn't always translate positively and constructively to the rest of life," he said. The city should nurture the arts like other cities do - Chicago's jazz festival, Austin cable music channels, tax incentives for club owners - Butler said...
...Cruise/Wagner was securing $100 million in hedge-fund money to finance films independently. "We decided that the best direction for us is to do something where we lead the way in terms of where the film industry is going," says Cruise's producing partner Paula Wagner. The private-equity model has suffered some high-profile failures, like this year's big-budget flop Poseidon, but new investors continue to rush to Tinseltown. In September, Flyboys, at $60 million one of the most financially ambitious and risky films funded entirely by private investors, lands in theaters. With expensive period sets...
...conservatives fear such an arrangement would be a Trojan horse, setting up an even larger national health-care program and taking more business from the private sector. Congress has no plans to enlarge the scope of veterans' health care--much less consider it a model for, say, a government-run system serving nonvets. But it's becoming more and more "ideologically inconvenient for some to have such a stellar health-delivery system being run by the government," says Margaret O'Kane, president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, which rates health plans for businesses and individuals. If VA health...
Some nonprofits have replaced the old model, in which a paid manager had volunteers stuffing envelopes, with a volunteer manager who has paid help to handle mail. "Volunteers today want to be involved in something meaningful," says David Eisner, CEO of CNCS. The nonprofits get it, he says, but he adds that many "are unwilling to give up their comfort zone...