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...turn. Finally, in the early hours of Feb. 13, that changed. Thanks in part to the Chinese, who played the stern taskmaster during the latest round of negotiations in Beijing ("they kept us up very late," Hill later joked), the State Department diplomat was able to return to his hotel shortly before 3 a.m. with a deal in hand. Hill wasn't the only U.S. official consumed by the talks. His boss, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, called him 12 times in three days to check the progress of negotiations. "He thought he had a tentative agreement," Rice told reporters...
Much of historic Beijing is being flattened in the name of redevelopment, but not, mercifully, its oldest hotel. Located a dumpling's throw from the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, the extravagant, 90-year-old building formerly known as the Grand Hôtel de Pékin is now the Raffles Beijing, beijing.raffles.com. When Raffles Hotels & Resorts-owner of Singapore's famed Raffles Hotel-took over the management reins last year, it led a no-expense-spared effort to restore the sort of style the hotel enjoyed in the days when the likes of George Bernard Shaw...
...dance floor has been restored. True to the Raffles spirit, each of the 171 rooms and suites coddles you in old-fashioned comfort. A butler swiftly delivers pillows of your choice on discovering that you had a sleepless night, and housekeepers deposit cards filled with engaging tales of the hotel's history on your bed. Superb contemporary French cuisine is available at the Jaan restaurant, and if you really want to test the distance to the former imperial palace, well, the East 33 café serves a whopping 33 varieties of dumplings...
...Virginia priest was indicted for allegedly embezzling $600,000 from two Catholic churches--in part to help support the woman and three children he had been secretly living with. Last year a Connecticut priest was accused of pilfering up to $1.4 million to pay for his Audi cars, luxury-hotel stays, jewelry for his boyfriend and a Fort Lauderdale condo. And last June another priest was sentenced to five years in prison after the misappropriation of $2 million from the Church of the Holy Cross in Rumson...
Hard-luck New Orleans, just hit by a tornado that destroyed several dozen homes, could use a party. Some 80% of the city's hotel space is booked for Mardi Gras, which wraps...