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George Papadopoulos—a former United Research Incorporated (URS) project manager for Harvard construction projects in Allston—was arraigned Tuesday morning for embezzling millions of dollars from Harvard and the Massachusetts Port Authority to spend on hotel rooms, home improvements, and Armani suits...
...southern Virginia was poison. Clearly. I had a friend get it for me. He had to go to a place he didn't want to go to, and he said he was disappointed because the guy he bought it from sometimes cuts it with bleach. Back in my hotel room, I faced down this thing in a Sierra Mist bottle that was the most wretched bit of liquor I have ever had near my lips. It took years of happy drinking off my life. It was poison. I hadn't really considered the fact that there would be people making...
...hopes of growing their already chunky slice of the global market for medical tourism, Bangkok's hospitals are going all out to blur the line between medical center and hotel - and cuisine is an important part of the offering. If you're bound for the Thai capital for that long-awaited nose job or hip replacement, rest assured that bland hospital food is not on the menu. Hearty gumbo is, however - at least at the new branch of Bangkok's popular Bourbon Street Restaurant and Oyster Bar, located atop the auxiliary wing of Bumrungrad International Hospital, www.bumrungrad.com. The outlet...
...hotel design is any reflection of the state of the economy, then hard times have indeed befallen us. How else does one explain the artfully peeling paintwork, beautifully bare floorboards and fabrics faded just so at Rough Luxe, www.roughluxe.co.uk - one of London's hottest boutique hotels? All right, it's designer decay, but it's nonetheless a jolt to travelers used to the glossy neutral tones and high-tech wizardry of more conventional offerings...
...looks as though your favorite granny took a design degree, but the end result is stimulating and surprisingly warm. With tiny Jack Russell terrier Spud at his heels, manager Leo Rabelo explains that this is very much a hotel-as-home concept. Children are welcome, guests are encouraged to interact around the breakfast table (salvaged wood, naturally) and the perfectly preserved 1960s kitchen is available to all. "Of course, it saves guests money," Leo says, reflecting the make-do-and-mend zeitgeist of the economic downturn. "London can be expensive...