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...construction magnate Robert McAlpine was so enchanted by the stage set that he decided he wanted a bit of Sleeping Beauty's magic for his own domain. So he commissioned Messel to design a suite, a penthouse, a pavilion and a roof terrace with fountain for his luxury London hotel the Dorchester. The result, which opened in 1953 and has been restored but never altered, is truly fit for a princess. The entire scheme is an essay in riotous cod rococo: swagged chintz, contorted gilt (even the bathroom fittings are gold-plated) and vibrant color (the bedroom juxtaposes canary yellow...
...want to understand one of this year's most important Senate races, consider the change of venues for Claire McCaskill's victory party. Two years ago, after winning the primary for governor of Missouri, Democrat McCaskill celebrated at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Kansas City. The location was symbolic. For the next three months McCaskill campaigned hard in Kansas City and St. Louis, rarely venturing into the rural areas that Missourians call "outstate...
...Both candidates expect continued support from their national parties. A July fundraiser with President Bush at the St. Louis Ritz-Carlton Hotel netted Talent $1 million, while McCaskill has hosted former President Bill Clinton and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid. Talent raised a total of $9.9 million by mid-July, compared to McCaskill's $4.5 million. He used his financial advantage to hire media consultant Scott Howell, who's famous (and infamous) for engineering the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry...
...mails he sent to young congressional pages - Mahoney suddenly appears to have all but won a seat that had come to look like a G.O.P. birthright. "I'm going to work to clean up cronyism and corruption in Congress," Mahoney tells TIME, sounding already like a victor in a hotel ballroom, "and work to bring rationality back to the way it does things...
...Instead, my relatives, my very own civilized, educated, well-traveled relatives, began hedging. "A small number were certainly murdered, but the rest probably died of war-times diseases," said one, a urologist. "The numbers were exaggerated to justify creating a Jewish homeland," said another, a hotel owner. A monarchist housewife: "Were there even six millions Jews in Germany before the war?" A computer science graduate: "I think it bears further historical research...