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...twentieth century, some say, was the golden age of the big, bland chain hotel. Vacationers of the 1950s or '60s took out second mortgages to afford jet travel, supposedly to find, as they hurtled from destination to destination, that a hotel room in Melbourne was the same as one in Manila. Innkeepers were accused of rolling out design templates such that no matter where you awoke in the world, the features of your room-the bedside panel, the writing desk-looked identical. Indeed, the very words Holiday Inn or Hilton took on a pejorative connotation: they were globalization's earliest...
Years ago he would have given his left pinkie to be the 12th man on the Golden State Warriors' roster. That MobiTV's hoop team, now defunct, lost every game in the Emeryville league doesn't bode well for a career change. But Mikami, 36, isn't done with start-ups: he is diverting some of his earnings to create a winery within three years at his family's 15-acre vineyard of Zinfandel in Lodi, Calif. He's also taking viniculture classes at the University of California at Davis and planning a three-month sabbatical to get his hands...
...against Yale, Harvard enters the contest with a six-game playoff winning streak. Although the Bulldogs had beaten the Crimson twice this season, Harvard stepped up when it really counted, defeating Yale 2-1 in Game 2 of the first round. The Crimson aims for similar success against the Golden Knights, who also overcame Harvard twice this year. “We have four wins coming into this weekend, but it’s going to be a tough series, no doubt,” Reese said. “Clarkson’s awesome. They?...
More importantly, however, Coulter (and her faithful minions) gave LGBT organizations a golden opportunity, and they squandered it. There are few occasions when homophobic speech comes from a source that is indisputably further from the mainstream than these organizations themselves. This “incident” (if you can even call it that) had all the makings of one of those occasions. Yet the HRC and GLAAD, in taking Coulter seriously, only diminished their own respectability...
First, the weather. Unusually heavy snowstorms have been hammering Denver since a Christmas-week monster stranded thousands, jamming many of the city's 14,000 blocks with huge chunks of ice and leaving golden-boy Mayor John Hickenlooper with a mile-high mound of woe. Seems that the city's snowplow corps didn't have enough muscle to handle the Buffalo-level cleanups. The response from ticked-off locals and the city-council president: "Hey, Mayor, wake the *&^%^@# up, will...