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jacket and goes off to apply for a job as a security guard at a five-star hotel. There he is mistaken for a journalist and whisked into a press banquet, one of many held in today's China to launch everything from[an error occurred while processing this directive] literacy campaigns to property developments. After a splendid meal - with an envelope of cash "for your troubles" - Dan has a revelation: all he needs to continue this charmed life is a fake business card and a nonexistent website. Thus begins Dan's career in journalism - and Geling Yan's shark...
...result is just hypocritical enough to turn the stomachs of fans of the Boss. The album, which takes its name from a hotel-casino in Vegas, offers about as much authentic Americana as neighboring Paris Las Vegas Hotel offers of “la vie Parisienne.” Catchy as the title track may be, Flowers may need a reminder that it takes more than singing “my brother he was born on the fourth of July” to live up to the Boss’s legacy...
...trash-strewn streets. Blue's shop was looking shabby too, its window displays outmoded, its linoleum worn. But when the City of Los Angeles moved to condemn his building--not to build a school or a fire station but to make way for a glitzy $500 million private hotel and condo complex--Blue dug in for what would become a three-year legal fight to save his store. "Big developers come along and say, 'Hey, that's a nice corner,'" he fumes. "Where will it stop...
...floral kingdoms. Thanks[an error occurred while processing this directive] to the incredible variety of fynbos, the Western Cape region is almost as botanically diverse as the entire northern hemisphere. Since early 2005, Roberto de Carvalho, executive chef at Azure, a restaurant in Cape Town's Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa, has used fynbos leaves and stems in place of regular herbs and spices in some of his favorite dishes. "You're eating something that you can only eat here," says De Carvalho, who collects the fynbos in the hills around the hotel every morning. "It's something different...
...deliberately understated, and the color palette kept to a soothing selection of cream, chocolate and olive. The range of amenities is appropriately lavish, and includes a dining room seating eight to 10, a fully equipped study, a Jacuzzi, a sauna and plasma TVs scattered throughout. Use of the hotel's secret entrance will pander to your inner celebrity, as will the private lounge in which your visitors are vetted by security before admission to the sanctum of the suite itself. A night here will set you back $4,500 - not cheap, but for this level of cosseting it's well...