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...Versace's entourages make time-out gestures at each other, cutting the visit short and bundling everyone into the SUVs for the long drive back to Chengdu airport and the evening flight to Beijing. It has been an exhausting business, spending a day in Li's wake. "Oh this is nothing," laughs his personal videographer. "You should have seen the crowds when we were in Shanghai...
Back at Damaris' apartment, we sit at the table and pick stones out of the red beans she bought: the vendors put pebbles in to drive up their margins. The mix today is about one part rocks, four parts beans. Damaris shrugs. "You wake up thinking about where to get breakfast, you eat breakfast thinking about where to get lunch, and on it goes," she says. "To be Cuban is to be tired...
...hour." Cal State, which experienced a 20% increase in first-year applications this fall, is the first public university to cap enrollment since the market meltdown in September, a move other schools may follow as 21 states grapple with midyear budget cuts to public colleges and universities in the wake of financial Armageddon. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...wake of the economic downturn, several universities in the Boston area are reevaluating their budgets, looking specifically at financial aid, construction projects, and employment. On November 10, Harvard University President Drew G. Faust emailed a letter to the faculty, students, and staff to discuss the “global economic crisis and its implications for us at Harvard...
...deterioration of the global economy in the wake of the ongoing U.S. housing bust and subsequent credit crunch is accelerating at a frightening pace. In the U.S., nothing captures the concussive force of the downturn better than the Consumer Price Index released Wednesday, which showed prices falling 1% in October after being flat in September. Suddenly, the prospect of outright deflation in the U.S. - and all the risks that entails - is a clear and present danger. "With the unemployment lines growing ever longer, there is a genuine risk that the U.S. economy could fall into a corrosive deflationary phase," says...