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...There’s a wave of anti-elitist populism sweeping the country as you read this. As Robert Reich, former U.S. labor secretary, puts it, “typical Americans are hurting very badly right now. They resent people who appear to be living high off a system dominated by insiders with the right connections.” Considering the repeated labeling of the money allocated for the National Endowment for the Arts in the stimulus bill “pork barrel spending,” it’s a real fear that the people...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Role of Artists in the Face of Recession | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...three initiatives is Well being. Our focus is to change the healthcare paradigm to include integrative medicine and promote patient advocacy. In my mind, this is going to be the wave of the future. Integrative therapists will incorporate the doctors, the nurses, and patients all in one. We're trying to make it part of the treatment in a hospital so that it's effortless, you don't have to ask for it. We are now trying to build a critical mass of integrative therapists. We are working through the nursing community, the yoga community. Right now there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Designer Donna Karan | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...expansion is planned at a time when the hospitality industry appears headed for trouble. Corporations and consumers are slashing travel budgets just as a wave of new hotels is reaching the market. Some 5,400 hotels will likely open globally in 2009 and 2010, the biggest surge in a decade, according to research firm Lodging Econometrics. UBS real estate analyst Eric Wong predicts a glut. As a result, revenue per available room - a common measure of hotel performance - is expected to fall in every major market in 2009. "Everybody was trying to grab a slice of the action," says Wong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Room Boom | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

Masked teenagers lob bricks at police shields, middle-aged women wave banners and chant slogans against repression, while police tanks fire water cannons into rowdy crowds. These images may evoke anti-globalization protests at some high-powered economic summit, but in northern Mexico, they're the latest flash point in the nation's incessant drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Drug War Takes to the Barricades | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

When Schwarzenegger swept then governor Gray Davis out of office and himself into the governor's chair in the dramatic 2003 recall election, he promised to end the partisan gridlock in Sacramento and balance the state's books. Neither miracle happened. A social liberal, Schwarzenegger had been careful to wave high the no-new-tax flag. In prior budget years, he touted bonds and found other gimmicks to put off costs until later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: One Vote Short of Averting Catastrophe | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

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