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...When A. Carlton Cuse ’81 signed on as an executive producer of an ABC television drama called “Lost,” he and the other producers didn’t think the show would make it past 12 episodes.“Everyone thought the pilot was amazing, but we didn’t think it would keep going,” said Cuse, who was at Sanders Theatre last Monday night to screen an early premiere of the seventh episode of the show’s third season—a long-awaited...
...starters, more luxury hotels now offer alcohol-appreciation lessons as a way of keeping guests amused. "There is growing competition to offer guests paying premium rates an experience which carries some bragging rights when they return home," says Ritz-Carlton spokeswoman Vivian Deuschl. "There is only so much time hotel guests can lie in the sun. They want to learn something new that enhances their overall lifestyle." With that in mind, the Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall in Jamaica, ritzcarlton.com, employs a local "rummier" who-in a stimulating 30-minute course-teaches guests the difference between various dark, light, flavored...
...CARLTON E. FORBES ’09 of Midlothian, Va. and Leverett House Associate Photography Chair...
...role, Reid will be under more personal scrutiny. When it was reported last fall that Reid had used campaign money to pay Christmas bonuses to employees of the Ritz-Carlton condominium where he lives in Washington, Republican Senator John McCain told a G.O.P. crowd that Reid has "always been a little on the edge," according to Vanity Fair. Reid, who repaid his campaign and didn't know about the comment until I told him about it, retorted, "Interesting, coming from one of the Keating Five"--referring to the scandal in which McCain was one of five Senators accused of interceding...
...make a tidy profit, not least because the hotel business is one industry in which Chinese firms are not yet equipped to undercut overseas rivals while also providing the requisite quality of service. "You can knock off Prada or Montblanc," says Ralph Grippo, China manager for the Ritz-Carlton hotels. "But there's no way you can knock off luxury service. It's about human beings and experience. That's not something you can duplicate." Ford agrees. "There's no Chinese company right now that can go toe-to-toe with Marriott," he says, or other big chains such...