Word: inns
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Fortunately, it is easy to find out the particular idiosyncrasies of each establishment by visiting the inn's website and then communicating with the owner via e-mail. B-and-B owners depend increasingly on the Internet to attract and book guests and to communicate with them before they arrive. (Websites like www.bestinns.net www.innplace.com or www.BedandBreakfast.com will lead you to countless prospects...
...that would foster community among undergraduates. Student groups are the spirit of undergraduate life on campus, and the University should commit itself to establishing a centrally-located community for our activities. Even if construction is not a viable option because of limited property space, the University could convert the Inn at Harvard--which will be in Harvard's hands in 13 years--into a student center...
...This is about the people vs. the powers that be, and we'll fight till we drop," said Chuck Hill, 66, the new town manager, one morning. I had invited five people to breakfast; 40 showed up. Thunder Valley Inn owner Anita Nelson, in Norsk regalia, got on the piano and pounded out an anti-Perrier sing-along to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic. And the lesson is this: never underestimate the will or resourcefulness of people who are snowed in half the year...
...took nearly 10 years to complete the building. The cornerstone was laid on Oct. 13, 1792, in one of those wonderfully proper Masonic rituals of the time. According to White House historian William Seale, people gathered at the Fountain Inn, a grand eating and drinking emporium in Georgetown. They shuffled down the dusty road to the White House site led by the Freemasons, who were followed by the federal district commissioners, and behind them came "gentlemen of the town and neighborhood" (as described in a Charleston, S.C., newspaper that provided the only written record of the event). There...
Something strange is happening in television: the rise of VTV, voyeur television. Despite Survivor's gross-outs, its dark premise and its wall-to-wall cheesiness--the faux-Lion King sound track, the "tribal councils" held in what looks like a Holiday Inn Polynesian lounge circa 1963, the somber narration of Jeff Probst, former host of VH1's Rock 'n' Roll Jeopardy! and challenger to Regis for luckiest-man-in-America status--despite all this, viewers have embraced the desert-island soap with fascination and bemused contempt. Does Dirk have a crush on Kelly? Will Ramona throw up again...