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Nigeria: Wretched Excess Tom Pullo looks like a fighter. His chest is a barrel, his forearms are all muscle. Seeing him at breakfast at the Agura Hotel in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, a place favored by foreign oil executives, you might take him for a security guard protecting his charges. But Pullo works for the other side. "We are not taking hostages because of money," he says. "We are taking hostages to draw world attention to our plight." Nigeria is the oil giant of Africa. It is also, as an American diplomat in the region says, "one big problem...
...buzzy Causeway Bay neighborhood. He points out affordable cafés for lunch, the fastest routes to Prada and Dior as well as Ying Kee Tea House, where guests can stock up on oolong blends to relieve jet lag. (There's a kettle in the room back at the hotel.) Cheung also times the hourlong walk to coincide with a touristy treat: the Jardine's gun's noon salute, dating back to the early days of the territory. 133 Leighton Road, Hong Kong; tel. + 852 3477 6888; concierge.lphk@lanson place.com...
...worried Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and George Clooney are going to start a pogrom? BARKIN: I worry that every time I go to my hotel room, there are going to be areas that are cordoned off from me. PITT: What's a pogrom...
Opening a hotel is never easy. But you have to admire the way the Fundu Lagoon resort on the lush island of Pemba has overcome obstacles. Just off the coast of Tanzania and north of Zanzibar, this small isle boasts few roads. Many parts are only accessible by boat. Then there are the dark arts. "Witch doctors will come to probe the deepest mysteries of voodoo," British author Evelyn Waugh wrote of Pemba in 1931. "Everything," he said, "is kept hidden from the Europeans...
Reached at her room in the Charles Hotel late last night, Nabel, who trained at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, declined to comment on her under-the-radar visit to Cambridge...