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...What's clear is that there is a direct connection between economic recovery and cultural spending." Ross would like to see a federal rescue mission for the arts, a $250 million fund to stabilize museums and libraries. That would be only a small fraction of what we've just spent to bail out the banks, but the probability that Congress and the White House will be allocating that much additional money for cultural institutions is roughly zero...
...when the corporate world's enthusiasm for China was at its peak, I spent a few days in Beijing in the company of a bunch of top business executives from the U.S. and Europe. The occasion was a conference sponsored by my then employer, Fortune, and as I sat through the speeches and panels and dinners, I was repeatedly struck by the almost puppy-like devotion to the Middle Kingdom voiced by Western CEOs...
...passport." As an undergraduate at the University of Washington, he began backpacking in Europe every summer. Within a few years, he started a one-man company leading minibus tours. He published his first guidebook in 1980; a generation later, Steves employs 80 people and has spent roughly a third of his life living out of a suitcase. (Yeah, he designs and sells those...
...Hyun, former President of South Korea, spent his life thumbing his nose at the country's political establishment. As a human-rights lawyer in the 1980s, he defended student protesters who fought the then dictatorial regime. In 2002, Roh--who never attended college--stunned South Korea's élite with his upset presidential-election victory. Less than seven years later, on May 23, he committed suicide at age 62 by jumping off a cliff while hiking near his home...
...main beneficiaries of transactions like mine. Criminal gangs are behind Asia's black market in fake goods, and misguided shoppers like me inadvertently support child labor, human-trafficking and other nefarious undertakings by indulging in the cheap goods. The directness of the revelation is sobering. "Money spent on counterfeits is easy profit for criminal organizations," the soft-spoken French native insists, "and supports other activities like prostitution and drugs...