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...Given the massive overhaul, it's surprising that even some frequent guests have to ask what, specifically, has changed. But Lopes isn't distressed. "It pleases me because it tells me that the renovations were done seamlessly and tastefully," he says, "which means we succeeded." tel: (1-310) 472 1211; hotelbelair.com
Although the Shins settled last month for an undisclosed amount--and publicly admitted that their daughter's death appeared to be accidental--the case has had a chilling effect on student-services professionals and has led to more frequent use of emergency-leave policies. But after several students complained about getting summarily booted, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights started informing schools that a person should be considered a direct threat only when there is "a high probability of substantial harm and not just a slightly increased, speculative or remote risk." In other words, there needs...
...Martin) slips a 33-1/3 rpm record out of its sleeve and tells us we are about to hear A 1928 musical called guess what. In a trice, the gent's apartment is converted into a Broadway stage and the musical is performed, with Man in Chair's frequent interpolations on the biographies of the stars. It's all faux, you know, and as directed by Casey Nicolaw (who choreographed Spamalot) the evening has an airy confidence worthy of the old shows...
...bright, block-long department stores that once lined Canal Street. My parents did their monthly grocery shopping at the cavernous Schwegmann's supermarkets in the city and treated my younger sister and me to movies and a few Mardi Gras parades there. Without us, my mother and father enjoyed frequent weekend excursions there, taking in shows and having dinner at Dooky Chase's and other eateries around the city. But by the time I hit my teens in the late '70s, New Orleans was hardening, and so was my father's attitude toward it. Crime was rising, white citizens were...
...without funds, their standing has already suffered. The PA hasn't been able to pay its roughly 160,000 employees for two months, and frequent border closures by Israel have stanched the flow of goods and services - and money - into and out of Gaza. The U.N., the World Bank, and numerous diplomats warn that the collective and mutually sustaining tolls of the financial and security crises in Gaza and the West Bank could lead to worsened poverty, more violence, and to the collapse of the PA itself...