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...PEOPLE: Hilton vs. Duff--who Screwed whom?; Bushbashapalooza...
...would slash its workforce by 15%, and InterActiveCorp, the U.S. owner of Expedia, announced a 25% drop in second-quarter net profits. Where are travelers booking? Directly with airlines - plus hotel chains like Hilton are increasingly promoting their own sites, says Simon Champion, leisure analyst at Deutsche Bank, leaving online agents with fewer rooms to hawk. Europe's holiday firms must be wondering when they'll get their break. Hallyday In The Sun It's his biggest hit ever: Johnny Hallyday, France's most popular rock star, last week secured ownership of his personal catalog of some 3,500 songs...
Friedman is the president and CEO of Carpenter & Company, Inc., a national real estate and investment firm that runs the Charles Hotel Complex in Cambridge, the Logan Airport Hilton Hotel in Boston and the St. Regis Hotel and Condominium Tower in San Francisco. He graduated from Dartmouth College and coached the Harvard College skiing team from...
There are also restaurants in and around the upscale Sheraton Grand and Caledonian Hilton hotels, both well situated for the film festival and key International Festival events. Moderately priced hotels, bed-and-breakfasts and other housing are available in Edinburgh and environs. As always, it's a good idea to book hotels and restaurants as soon as you know you will be attending the events...
...RETIRED. MAJOR GENERAL EDWARD MECHENBIER, 62, the last Vietnam prisoner of war still flying for the U.S. military; at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Shot down over North Vietnam in 1967, Mechenbier spent six years in captivity in the so-called Hanoi Hilton, alongside John McCain, now a U.S. Senator. He hung up his wings upon reaching the Air Force's mandatory retirement age: "When you're getting run out of town on a rail, get in front and make it look like a parade," he said at a ceremony in his honor...