Word: hiltonization
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Hotel heir Paris Hilton, left, and, uh, Lionel Richie heir Nicole Richie move to a farm...
DIED. CHARLES FRASER, 73, pioneering developer of Hilton Head, the elegant resort community that was once a barely populated barrier island off the South Carolina coast; in a boating accident in the West Indies...
...convert hotel points to airline miles. An average three-night stay at a full-service Hilton or Marriott will run you about $450. If you paid for it with hotel points, you would use 75,000, which you could also exchange for 15,000 miles. Using the 2¢-a-mile accepted value, those 15,000 miles are worth just...
...looked like most of those who had stayed had been deputized into black jumpsuits and menacing body armor. Swarms of police clotted by the dozen at checkpoints. At the Hilton, where president Bush held several meetings with foreign leaders, the perimeter was rimmed with guards standing so close it looked like they were posing for a group photo. Over-head, American F-16s protected the air space and Wednesday, George Bush moved his speech from the offices of Radio Free Europe at the last minute because of an unspecified threat...
...Murakami tells it, his emergence as a novelist was a mystical experience-an artistic epiphany. It came in 1977, he says, as he sat in Tokyo's Jingu Stadium watching his favorite baseball team, the Yakult Swallows. When batter Dave Hilton hit a double, Murakami, then 28, says he heard a voice telling him to begin his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing. "That was one of the happiest experiences of my life," he recalls. "Perhaps the happiest." A decade later came the momentous publication of Norwegian Wood. Until then, the psychomysteries that formed the bulk of Murakami's work...