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...then partner Steve Rubell opened Morgans on a nondescript stretch of Madison Avenue and introduced high style to hospitality? "Absolutely, people will want to see what he's doing," says Jeff Weinstein, editor of Hotels magazine. "But it's going to be hard for him to break new ground now because the industry has caught up with him. They've embraced style and lifestyle...
...group as a prime audience in these early days of raising money and trying to conjure momentum. "If you're running for President," said a close associate of President George W. Bush's, "it is the place to go." One of the group's first projects: supplying cash and ground troops to help South Dakota's John Thune beat Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle in 2004. Thune, a presidential prospect, electrified the Broadmoor audience, which also heard from Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn of Texas...
...into Malawi quietly. She has already promised to raise at least $3 million to fund programs that would mostly help orphans there (another thing Malawi has in excess, thanks to AIDS. Of its population of about 13 million, 1 million are children who have lost at least one parent). Ground will soon be broken on an orphan-care center, which aims initially to feed and educate at least 1,000 children a day. She's financing--to the tune of about $1 million--a documentary about the plight of Malawian children. And she has met with Bill Clinton...
False Alarm Monday, July 31, 7:48 a.m. Officers were dispatched to a report of a suspicious package. Officers arrived at the Business School’s shipping and receiving depot and observed a black briefcase on the ground in the area. The Boston Bomb Squad was notified, and further investigation revealed that the briefcase was empty and not suspicious; it was later disposed...
...Britain's man in Baghdad that civil war in Iraq is a much more likely prospect right now than democratic stability may be at odds with the Pollyannaish pronouncements from the White House and 10 Downing Street, but it's more like conventional wisdom among those engaged on the ground. In fact, hours after the contents of the valedictory diplomatic cable from outgoing British ambassador William Patey were leaked to the media, the head of U.S. Central Command, General John Abizaid, told the Senate that sectarian violence was at an all-time high, and if not stopped, would lead...