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...Both candidates expect continued support from their national parties. A July fundraiser with President Bush at the St. Louis Ritz-Carlton Hotel netted Talent $1 million, while McCaskill has hosted former President Bill Clinton and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid. Talent raised a total of $9.9 million by mid-July, compared to McCaskill's $4.5 million. He used his financial advantage to hire media consultant Scott Howell, who's famous (and infamous) for engineering the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry...
...says executive producer Carlton Cuse. But executive producer Damon Lindelof interjects that he might not use the term present...
...government cleanup crews onto federal property. With the hurricane season just gaining momentum, he worries about the next storm. Environmental groups recently issued a report urging Congress to pass new legislation to restore the disappearing wetlands. "Unless Louisiana's losses are reversed, the communities of Louisiana cannot survive," said Carlton Dufrechou, executive director of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation...
Certainly, Schrager's too-cool-for-school hotels have been copied relentlessly. Starwood Hotels & Resorts hired architects such as Ricardo Bofill and Charles Gwathmey to design its flourishing W Hotels, a chain many felt was a direct rip-off of Schrager. Marriott's Ritz-Carlton has partnered with the Italian jewelry company Bulgari to create a string of boutique hotels...
...foreign companies seem set to make a tidy profit, not least because this is one industry in which the Chinese are ill-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 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," or with other big chains such...