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...CityCenter polos and khakis, effortlessly squired the prospective hires from station to station, where they received their job offers and made arrangements for ID badges and uniform fittings. Meanwhile, reporters and photographers, with p.r. docents bolted to their hips, followed close behind. All were surrounded by banners, flat-screen TVs, holographic pictures and models conveying the scope of their new place of employment; at one point, Janet Jackson's "All for You" drifted by from hidden speakers. (Read Joel Stein's cover story "Less Vegas...
...views. All take full advantage of the location with floor-to-ceiling windows. The views - particularly when facing the water or looking downtown - will have you gazing outside in mute distraction every time you climb out of your sprawling bed. Organic bath amenities, iPod sound systems and high-definition TVs feature among the many luxurious touches. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
Americans famously overspent during the 1990s and early '00s. It's a familiar story: we mortgaged oversized homes to buy colossal TVs. But you may have heard less about another commodity we binged on: justice. Americans indulged in an enormous criminal-justice spending spree during the past 25 years, locking up more and more offenders (particularly for drug-related crimes) for longer and longer sentences. Total spending on incarceration rose from $39 per U.S. resident in 1982 to $210 per resident in 2006, according to the most recent figures from the Justice Department. We now spend $62 billion a year...
...most plausible explanation for this happy outcome is that Japan was willing to recycle into Treasuries the dollars it earned selling us cars, TVs and stereos. That demand for U.S. debt kept interest rates low. By the early 1990s, though, the national debt - the accumulated product of those years of deficits - approached 50% of GDP, and bond investors abroad and at home seemed to shy away from Treasuries, driving interest rates up. Also, billionaire Ross Perot spent a good part of his fortune making deficits into a political issue. In response, Washington focused for a few years on getting...
...were counseling someone with a lot of media exposure, like Burress or Bernie Madoff [who also employed a prison consultant], what would you tell them? If you're being followed in the media, well, these correctional facilities have TVs. Once they find out where you're going, they're waiting for you. You're going to be scrutinized by everyone. It's like your first day of school. Take Madoff, for example: there's a bounty on this guy. He's ruined so many lives, screwed so many people over. If he has no fear, he's more psychotic than...