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...Return. The countdown to tax day has begun. To ease your inevitable pain, the San Francisco-based hotel chain Joie de Vivre will pay guests' occupancy taxes at any of its 30 hotels in California through April...
...artist’s versatility, not only in the media he chose but also in the style of the images he presented, comes to the forefront. At his best, Wein manages to blend everything together to create a tempered oeuvre whose elegance and emotion is both a manifestation of joie de vivre and a love letter to life. —Staff writer Denise Xu can be reached at dxu@fas.harvard.edu...
...brothers and her sister out of her life as she single-mindedly pursued her tennis ambitions. In post-match interviews, her icy mood appeared the same whether she won or lost. Her dour demeanor contrasted poorly with that of her fellow Belgian tennis rival Kim Clijsters, whose joie de vivre and conviviality lit up the women's circuit...
...said he believed in "masterly inactivity." Indeed, he, Picabia and Ray shared a talent for cerebral sloth. They all thought up endless word games that boil down to jokes about sex. This too was art. The Tate Modern exhibition is dense with doodles and scraps full of dark joie de vivre...
Ironically, when tackling the subject of recognizing people for good work, the three very different CEOs all fall back on corny ploys. Joie de Vivre's Conley quotes philosopher William James: "The deepest hunger in humans is the desire to be appreciated." He says he has given away "dozens and dozens of copies" of the children's book The Little Engine That Could to his employees. Writes Conley: "The fact that a room attendant is given this book personally by the company's CEO, with a customized inscription inside, makes the recognition all the sweeter." Likewise, Kilts believes...