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...second home. "I've never managed a hotel where the clientele is so loyal, has such high standards, and feels so proprietary about it," Lopes says. So when Mobil Travel Guide subtracted one of the five stars from the Bel-Air's rating in 1999, Lopes knew a face-lift to the "dated and tired" design was imperative. He would have to nip and tuck carefully to avoid rankling the hotel's faithful. "I had to update every facet, while preserving the classical elegance that is the Bel-Air's signature," he says. The dining room underwent...
...publicity, so they "can experience the Disney magic themselves [and] better share it with their passengers." And even if attendance lags for a while, Disney says the park is already benefiting its other businesses in Asia. Andy Bird, president of Walt Disney International, says there's been "a noticeable lift in our brand and character awareness" in China since the park's opening?for example, sales of Buzz Lightyear merchandise have jumped, in part because the character features in Disneyland's popular Astro Blasters ride. David Miller, an analyst at investment-banking firm Sanders Morris Harris in Los Angeles, agrees...
...acknowledge that we live in a super-competitive age, but there are limits to everything. Let’s not forget the new robber barons that have been sentenced and put away for stealing millions from Enron, WorldCom, and other corporations. Great authors make allusions. Ms. Austen did not lift the very language of Anne Radcliffe’s “Mysteries of Udolpho” to write her “Northanger Abbey.” She made allusions to that text and to its gothic conventions. Shakespeare’s texts play with ancient myth...
...matches.Georgetown University, the University of California-Los Angeles, and the United States Military Academy at West Point are all among the clients that TurnItIn now lists.Will Harvard hop on the bandwagon?Not anytime soon, say administrators and instructors here.TURNING THE TABLESThe Internet makes it easier for students to lift passages from other sources. But it also makes it easier to catch the copiers.The creator and chief executive of TurnItIn, John Barrie, said his software is an indispensable tool.“All the other methods, such as proctors and honor codes, are the status quo. That is what people have...
...They had no reason to be suspicious: Tuesday was family day at the clinic and Kugenthirasah had been coming for weeks. A guard offered her a lift. She arrived at the clinic just as the commander of the Sri Lankan army, Lt.-Gen. Sarath Fonseka, was leaving his nearby office for lunch. Eyewitnesses say Kugenthirasah walked away from the clinic and strode toward Fonseka's heavily guarded convoy. A motorcycle outrider spotted her, says military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe. Her determined manner, that bump-it didn't look right. The outrider swerved, blocked her path and, when she kept coming...