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...1980s, Silverman too was an LBO artist, working alongside corporate raider Saul Steinberg and funding his exploits with Michael Milken's Drexel junk bonds. Then, as a partner at Blackstone in the early 1990s, he sniffed a change in the financial winds, cobbled together a few struggling hotel chains (starting with Ramada and Howard Johnson) into Hospitality Franchise Systems (HFS), took the company public and stayed...
...just traveled halfway around the world, and that garment bag you've been lugging feels like a Buick on your back. You arrive at your posh hotel, and an overly costumed valet grabs the bag, carries it all of 50 yards to reception and bids you good day. You are expected to cough up a tip. And you might not see your belongings again for another half an hour while the bag makes its way to your room...
When the partying is over, you can bed down nearby, thanks to a pair of upmarket hotels. The Courtyard by Marriott Düsseldorf Hafen, tel: (49-211) 49390, houses Julian's Bar, with its red chaise longues and fat leather sofas, which is a popular spot for predinner drinks. Milanese architect Matteo Thun's modern masterpiece, the Radisson SAS Media Harbour Hotel, www.radisson.com/dusseldorfde_harbour, is done up with a sleek Brazilian slate facade, features an outstanding health club and spa and another of the neighborhood's standout restaurants, Amano, www.amano-medienhafen.de. In MedienHafen, there's no shortage of good food...
...Genarlow Wilson, for instance, is serving 10 years for what all parties agree was consensual oral sex because under Georgia law oral sex with a minor counts as child molestation. Jose E. Lopez of North Carolina received a 15-year sentence for unknowingly allowing an acquaintance to use a hotel room rented in his name to deal cocaine. Mandatory minimum sentences also aggravate our already ineffective prison system. In the words of Patrick, “People come out more dangerous than when they went in.” Statistics show that nearly half of Massachusetts’ former prisoners...
...Beijing, U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill - intercepted by reporters on his way to his hotel room to pack his bags, catch a few hours sleep and depart for Washington - didn't sound so optimistic...