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...look inside many of these inns reveals not only a more personalized atmosphere but also an homage to the cities in which they are located. The Windy City Urban Inn in Chicago's trendy Lincoln Park features such memorabilia of the city as old photographs and World's Fair items. The inn consists of two separate buildings that date to 1886, with four guest rooms in the main building and three apartments in the coach house. Rates range from $145 to $225 a night, including breakfast, and about 70% of the guests are 50 or older...
When George Bush landed on the deck of the U.S.S. Lincoln last spring, Democrats fibrillated. They denounced the scenes of a triumphant Commander-in-Chief surrounded by cheering troops as crassly choreographed for 30-second campaign ads, and fumed that the whole stunt had been paid for by the taxpayers. Now,the same critics can't wait to cue the tape. As American casualties mount and bombs shake Baghdad, the image of Bush's flight suit strut under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished" is so discordant, his opponents believe, it says more about the administration's arrogance and incompetence than...
...odds with the reality in Iraq did even more damage to White House credibility last week. Asked at a news conference whether the "Mission Accomplished" banner had been prematurely boastful, the president backed away from it, saying it had been put up by the sailors and airmen of the Lincoln to celebrate their homecoming after toppling Saddam's regime...
...Some Bush allies are not so steadfast. As criticism of the president's visit to the Lincoln has grown, so too has the number of voices from the president's own camp who argue that, regardless of what message may have been sent to the troops, the White House sent an even bigger one of self-satisfaction and boastfulness to the rest of the world. The image-making may backfire for the White House because it broke one of its own cardinal rules. "When you're in the end zone act like you've been there," say senior officials...
...said so much about Lincoln in so few words. It’s a task that looks easy but is incredibly hard,” said Rorabough, who attended graduate school with Gienapp at the University of California at Berkeley...