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China has, of course, seen its share of gold rushes before, many of which ended with little return--or large losses--for investors who stampeded in. This time, many foreign companies seem set to 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...
...find existing programs that can be cut. As well, Tanner and others have stripped out those parts of the a.l.p. platform that were closely identified with former leader Mark Latham (such as the deeply flawed funding model for schools and the health-care money pit known as Medicare Gold...
...five of the Clan’s nine members contribute to the record, beginning with Ghostface Killah on “Back in the Air.” Ghostface has had a Midas’ touch lately, but he can’t turn this lackluster RZA track into gold; the ghost of ODB just can’t keep up with him. “Intoxicated,” featuring Raekwon, and Method Man is also flat. Parts of ODB’s verse here have already appeared on Ghostface’s “9 Milli Bros...
...that the video for “Alala” is a bloody gore-fest. It takes a bellicose group of “Pretty in Pink” rejects, throws them a perfectly nice party, and then lets them proceed to tear each others’ faces off. Gold lamé puff-sleeves are ripped to shreds, and corsages go flying. The sexy are made to be distinctly not. The video is filmed in reverse—the director claims it’s a visual pun on the palindromic song title, but that seems like...
...Flav,” he said, before pausing. “Flavor Flav? He’s, like, one of the worst rappers ever.” “That’s not the point!” screeched a woman dressed in a red robe and gold chains. For fans of the man born William Drayton, talent never was the point. The hundreds waiting in the cold had bought Flav’s new album, “Hollywood,” but that was because Newbury Comics made purchasing the CD a prerequisite for a spot...