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Some of these protestors followed Obama downtown to the Westin Copley Place hotel, the site of a fundraiser for Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78. Here, they were joined by groups protesting for LGBT rights. A small crowd gathered around James Cardine, a local resident, as he spoke against society’s perception of nontraditional relationships. “We are born imperfect only because we are born here, in this country, at this time,” he said...
...prow-shaped silhouette of Cardiff's St David's Hotel and Spa, www.thestdavidshotel.com, dominates the once notorious dockside district of Tiger Bay. Local attractions have changed in the past 30 years. Prostitutes looking for sailors on shore leave once rubbed shoulders with the myriad nationalities who made up one of Britain's oldest multicultural communities. Regeneration means the Welsh parliament, the Millennium Centre (home of the Welsh National Opera), smart shops and restaurants now draw local professional couples and business visitors who would once have steered clear of the area and its nefarious reputation. (See pictures of London...
...When it opened in 1999, St David's Hotel was one of the first businesses to embrace the challenge of reviving the locality. Today, guests stepping out of the hotel's seven-story atrium for a stroll along the foreshore may be forgiven a touch of déjà vu. The area's panoramic setting is a backdrop for the British sci-fi TV drama Dr Who (the cast of which stays at the hotel during filming). Each of the 132 Olga Polizzi - designed rooms enjoys views of the bay, and the spa's hydrotherapy pool maintains the illusion...
...terrorists from getting past a police checkpoint with a load of grenade launchers instead of heroin? Wednesday's brazen suicide raid on an international guesthouse in Kabul that killed six U.N. employees, including one American, and a subsequent rocket-propelled-grenade volley on the capital's only five-star hotel are clear indications that the city's protective perimeter - manned by Afghan security forces - was breached. If the CIA can't uphold law and order in Afghanistan, how can one expect Afghans, who haven't had much experience with either over the past 30 years, to do better...
...TIME's photo essay "Bomb Blast Hits Peshawar Hotel...