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Henry Sy runs the Philippines' largest retailer, but he operates his SM Group almost as if it were a family-owned corner greengrocery. Each week Sy (estimated net worth: $1.4 billion), sporting his trademark Hawaiian shirt, gathers his six children at the company's warehouse-style offices near Manila's waterfront, where they oversee nearly every aspect of the business. On Saturdays family members fan out to conduct firsthand inspections of their SM malls, department stores and supermarkets. On Sundays Sy, 80, insists that the family meet yet again, either at his $2 million luxury log cabin in the lush...
...Thomas Pynchon). One year, a splendid season of every Samuel Beckett play cued a longish essay; the next, the packaging of musical shorts from the 30s and 40s. And there was the week when all the grownups were on vacation and I assigned myself a page on a Hawaiian steel-guitar virtuoso of the 1920s. For goodness? sake, why? Because I liked...
...because obviously, you can’t be serious in that outfit,” my friend said. At Eleganza tryouts (note: its a pun on elegant), I couldn’t really argue with those sentiments. I was wearing a floral print bathing suit, a different floral print Hawaiian shirt, a jacket fit for the Swiss army (and only the Swiss army) and knee-length black socks. The look on her face was telling me that I needed to step off. I was standing in line between three women on my right and four women on my left...
...unknown is also fruitful. Never before had we seen a six-foot stack of campus favorites like Crimson Chili and New England Clam Chowder in sixteen-ounce bags, nor had we previously encountered mango salsa, which will most likely be served with a seared mahi mahi on an upcoming Hawaiian cuisine night...
...None of us remembered the Enchanted Tiki Room as it now exists ?under new management.? I guess Disney felt the ticky-tacky tikis needed an update, and now there are hints of rap instead of ?Hawaiian War Chant.? Bad mistake. The kitsch was right at the heart of the old room?s charm - it was cheesier than the Vegas it parodied, and therein rested its modest charm...