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...adapt capsule hotels to the European market. Stelios Hadji-Ioannou, founder of budget airline easyJet, launched the first easyHotel in London in August 2005, offering tiny spartan rooms averaging 7.5 sq m (most without windows) in the high-rent South Kensington district. Want restaurant service or minibars? Forget it. And you'll pay about $10 a night extra if you want to watch the flat-screen TV. As a result, rates average about $78. Yet travelers appear to have embraced no-frills accommodation. easyHotel's occupancy rate averages 89%, says Roger Powell, franchise service director, compared with the average annual...
...important role. The cease-fire in 2002 was signed with a government more open to negotiation. But the election of President Mahinda Rajapakse in late 2005 saw the return of a more hard-line attitude toward the L.T.T.E. Top officials in Colombo oscillate between talking and fighting. "They forget that you can and should deal with the underlying problem with or without the L.T.T.E.," says Dayan Jayatilleka, a senior lecturer in the department of politics at the University of Colombo who was recently named Sri Lanka's ambassador to Switzerland and permanent representative to the U.N. in Geneva...
...require Arab Iraqis trying to enter Kurdistan to have a Kurdish resident vouch for their character. As a result, the Arab refugee population is largely middle class, with a glut of doctors, lawyers and other professionals. But as the number of newcomers swells, tensions are rising. Not many Kurds forget the years of repression from Iraq's Arab majority, and many now blame Arabs for rising home prices. While I was waiting to speak to the president of Salahaddin University in Erbil, which recently added around 200 Arab professors to its faculty, a visiting Kurdish archeologist offered his expert opinion...
Even in comedy, where women were mandatory for smart repartee and the fade-out kiss, guys have elbowed them out of the equation. Forget Tracy and Hepburn. Today the standard pairing is some combination of Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Ferrell and one or more Wilsons. Wedding Crashers, Talladega Nights and Blades of Glory are basically male love stories: boy bonds with boy, boy breaks up with boy, boy and boy make up. The female interest is strictly nominal...
...have been renowned for their magnetism, which we think of as a fortunate personal trait, like good looks. But deploying charm and projecting it are histrionic skills. Franklin D. Roosevelt's appeal was heightened by the polio that crippled him in 1921. He developed the ability to make people forget his leg braces and feel at ease in his presence. Those who met him when he was President, or even saw his million-dollar smile at a distance or in a newsreel, felt heartened. Winston Churchill said being with him was like "opening a bottle of champagne." Good vibes...