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...redefine the $122 billion U.S. hotel business the way he did back in 1984, when he and his then partner Steve Rubell opened Morgans on a nondescript stretch of Madison Avenue and introduced high style to hospitality? "Absolutely, people will want to see what he's doing," says Jeff Weinstein, editor of Hotels magazine. "But it's going to be hard for him to break new ground now because the industry has caught up with him. They've embraced style and lifestyle...
...half years in jail. "All our people are dying through alcohol abuse," says Fraser Baker, chairman of the Mabunji Aboriginal Resource Centre. "The drinkers spend nearly all their wages. There are families here whose kids are not going to school. We have to sort this out." Borroloola Council ceo Jeff Colver agrees. "When the [Federal government] baby-bonus payments came through recently," he says, "there was a massive stream of people wandering around clearly drunk, carting cartons of alcohol." Police Superintendent Ian Lea, the local area commander, is also worried. In the Borroloola area, he says, "alcohol-related violence fuels...
...then went to TV with his nonfiction series 30 Days on FX. Season 2 of Morgan Spurlock's critically acclaimed show--which explores what happens when you spend a month with someone on the opposite side of a controversial issue--premieres this week. TIME's Hillary Batchelder and Jeff Chu spoke with Spurlock, 35, about hamburgers, going to jail and growing up as a dancer in West Virginia...
...People are fed up with Cynthia McKinney," and "it crosses racial boundaries," said Jeff Dickerson, an African-American constituent of McKinney's and a panelist on the political TV talk show The Georgia Gang who predicted a tight runoff race. "I think that there's a quiet campaign among African-American voters" against her, he added...
...FLDS sect follows the original fundamental teachings of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, who advocated the practice of polygamy. But unlike other polygamy groups, FLDS members unquestionably follow the directives of a single leader or "prophet." Currently, that position is being held by Warren Jeffs, a fugitive wanted on the same charges as Fischer in Arizona and as a rape-as-an-accomplice charge in Utah. The estimated 6,000 to 11,000 FLDS members in the U.S. follow Jeff's "revelations," which dictate who should marry whom and when. A series of these "revelations" two years ago resulted...