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More than white-glove service or custom-crafted luggage, the greatest luxury in travel these days is having the secret addresses and accumulated wisdom of world-class travelers. My first trip to Paris 25 years ago was informed by a list of 10 addresses scribbled down by a Francophile friend who loved the City of Light so much he practically commuted there from New York. Among the musts were places like Berthillon on the Ile St. Louis and the bistro Chez Georges. For years I passed that list around like samizdat. The idea of tapping into the experiences of globetrotters...
...Smith: The Global Shortlist (Spy Publishing) James and Tamara Lohan, the brains behind this hip series of British boutique-hotel guides, finally bring their secrets Stateside with this list of the most romantic accommodations worldwide...
...reopened wounds dating back to his turbulent tenure as Harvard’s president.The National Organization for Women and other women’s groups have issued sharply-worded statements opposing Summers’ potential appointment that may have succeeded in knocking him off Obama’s short list, according to The Politico, a Capital Hill newspaper.This round of Summers backlash has focused on his comments at a 2005 conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in which he suggested that “intrinsic” physiological differences between men and women may in part account...
...honest, and there's a lot of blame to go around," DeMint told a GOP gathering in Myrtle Beach, S.C. "But I have to mention George Bush, and I have to mention Ted Stevens, and I'm afraid I even have to mention John McCain." DeMint then offered a list of McCain's anti-conservative apostasies, including his support for campaign finance reform, immigration reform and legislation aimed at combating global warming...
...items on DeMint's list of lament read like talking points to jump-start Monday afternoon's conversation in Chicago between McCain and Obama. According to an Obama aide, the President-elect views McCain as a potential ally on the kind of reform issues for which the two men share broad agreement. "There are areas of general agreement and beliefs - on immigration, earmark reform, energy, climate change, government reform, spending reform," says the aide. "Where there's agreement on both sides, they want to figure out ways they can work together...