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...reality - as a group of young Harvard conservatives found - was an empty room with a bunch of Wii video games (XPAC was strictly nonalcoholic). As the gray-haired contingent listened to George Will explore the future of the movement and ate at a "presidential banquet" upstairs at the Marriot Wardman, where the conference was being held, the cool kids had already moved on to Adams Morgan and beyond. (See 10 GOP congressional contenders...
...glitter and glam of the Barbie gathering at the Marriot Wardman Hotel may have seemed out of touch with the nation's economic woes, but "the Barbie market is very, very strong," says Sandi Holder, owner of the world's sole Barbie-only museum, located in Union City, Calif. And she should know: her biennial Barbie auction did well this year, despite the economy. Holder, who gave up her career as a pediatric intensive-care nurse in order to pursue her Barbie passion, even takes the cake with a world record: in 2004 she auctioned...
...lucrative company cash without crossing any obvious boundaries.For example, Women in Business, a group that helps its members network with finance big-wigs and prepare for professional life, partnered with investment banks like Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley for last week’s convention at the Marriot Hotel in Boston. The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations boasts a similarly impressive list of conference sponsors, including the Mitsubishi Corporation, Daimler-Chrysler, and the Daiwa Securities Group.Friedman and Vandenberg have taken a cue from such groups, and this month, they plan to move their operation off campus...
...book signing and a public reading of their work at The New School before the awards ceremony, according to the foundation’s website. Damrosch says he is looking forward to humorist and radio personality Garrison Keillor hosting the black-tie awards dinner at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square. “This will be gathering of some of America’s best writers,” says Damrosch, “and I think it’s great that we get to share our work together.” The Foundation will give a lifetime...
...guests are a gift from God." I learned this first hand. I was the only Western journalist staying at the Baumond, a small bed and breakfast fifteen minutes from Freedom Square. As everyone else was slipping in to the high threadcount sheets at the sleek and thoroughly modern Courtyard Marriot, I was being shown in to what looked like aunt Edna's room. A bed, a desk and armoire fit snugly into the space. I was happy I was only staying there for a few hours. "Probably not a lot of wi-fi here," I joked to myself looking...