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That is a point much in dispute in the British travel industry. The existence of the Reeves is an indication of how rankled some travelers are by the standards of other London hotels. The Businesswoman's Travel Club, founded two years ago to "provide a voice for women who receive second-class service when they travel," conducted a survey earlier this year that yielded a flood of complaints about life on the road. Many women are tired of ironing skirts with a trouser press or drying long hair on a space heater. Says Kirsty Maxey, 25, a marketing executive...
...backward Burma, though perhaps born to the task. Her father was the national hero General Aung San, who led the struggle for independence from Britain only to be assassinated by a rival in July 1947, a mere six months before colonial rule ended. Until just over a year ago, Suu Kyi lived in England with her British husband Michael Aris and her two sons. Her return to Burma in April 1988 was a matter of happenstance: she came home to nurse her mother, who died last January. But the explosive antigovernment protests that gripped Burma swept Suu Kyi, 44, into...
THIS week has seen an orgy of Woodstock nostalgia. The three-day-long music festival that ended 20 years ago today was the last major event of the 1960s, and it supposedly defined a generation...
UNFORTUNATELY, it's simply not true. The Baby Boomers put George Bush into office less than a year ago. They continue to spend themselves and the country into oblivion, leaving the next generation to pick up the pieces...
Admittedly, an engaging passage. But Abbie wrote it the afternoon after Woodstock--20 years ago tomorrow. The world has irreversibly changed since then. The '60s are gone, and they are not coming back. It's about time "The Woodstock Generation"--and authors Casale and Lerman--realized...