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Anything involving computers is in great demand now--not just the arts of programming and software designing either. Almost anybody who works in an office must use a personal computer. A hotel clerk, for example, has to know not only how to click a mouse but also which hotel operations a computer can speed up and how. What is hot now, says Allan Kolber, chief enterprise architect at New Jersey-based technical-services provider Butler International, is people who know data warehousing and business-process re-engineering. Anyone who can deal with changes in the formatting of data...
...crank has to travel no farther than across the street, from the apartment building where it's made to the tavern or motel room where it's sold. So pervasive is this bathtub crank that a Billings teenager trying to kick drugs had to quit her job as a hotel maid because she was constantly finding traces of meth in the bathrooms she cleaned. While on assignment for this story, TIME's writer and photographer watched from the lobby of their motel as a notorious Billings crank dealer, facing state charges at the time, received a steady stream of predawn...
...will remember Sinatra as an arrogant, offensive bully. He treated the fans who made him with contempt, refusing even to acknowledge them. As the singer and his burly entourage walked through a Honolulu hotel lobby, I saw Sinatra's bodyguards shove fans aside when they approached. Sinatra's voice was made of gold. The man behind it was a monster. ALAN L. LIGHT Iowa City, Iowa...
...James Retter, in his new book Anatomy of a Scandal, has reconstructed the events of May 8, 1991, and writes that contrary to what Jones has said in sworn statements, it's extremely unlikely that she met Clinton around 2:30 p.m., after he gave a speech. Retter interviewed hotel personnel, conference organizers and others and found that Clinton gave his speech at 8 a.m., was gone from the hotel by 9:30 a.m. and apparently did not return. The schedule of the conference and Clinton's own schedule--including a luncheon at the Governor's mansion for European industrialists...
...fled Ireland into self-imposed exile late in 1904, taking with him Nora Barnacle, a young woman from Galway who was working as a hotel chambermaid in Dublin when Joyce met her earlier that year. (On hearing that his son had run off with a girl named Barnacle, John Joyce remarked, playing on her last name, "She'll never leave him." And, proving puns can be prophetic, she never...