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...outright fabricate things about real people who have to carry their fake reputations into their real lives. Sarah Kozer, a contestant on the Fox dating show Joe Millionaire, says producers doctored a scene in which she went for a walk behind some trees with the show's bachelor, Evan Marriott, to make it seem as if they had oral sex. The producers added sound effects and captions, she says, and dubbed in a line--"It's better if we're lying down"--that she had said earlier in the day in a different context. "It couldn't have been more...
...wonder that the market in 2004 generated $1.5 billion in sales, triple 2003's, according to Ragatz Associates, a consulting and market-research firm in Eugene, Ore. That kind of volume is beginning to pay off for the hospitality industry's big guns--Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons, Starwood, Hilton, Marriott and Hyatt, among others--which have bottle-fed the fractionals concept for more than a decade. The motivation? Financing expensive hotel projects is easier and far more lucrative this way. "The time-share business has been a very good business for these companies because it tends to have high margins...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—I have foregone Harvard-Yale weekend to venture here, where over the weekend the African Studies Association (ASA) held its annual meeting, a coming together of many hundreds of scholars under the roof of a palatial Marriott around the corner from the National Zoo.In what is called a “serendipitous occasion,” the ASA and the Middle Eastern Studies Association have double-booked the hotel, so that their annual meetings’ overlap.This serendipity is manifold. Several yards away, two Levantine sorts whisper to one another—one, a grey...
...senior year, she did a marketing study for national food-service conglomerate Sodexho-Marriott on why college students don’t use their dining halls. She managed to land a position at HUDS just three months after graduation—Food Service Manager for Eliot and Kirkland. Last January, she was promoted to oversee Currier...
...police had already made several key arrests and the first detentions in a sweep that eventually netted all but a few of the plotters. Why the big difference? For one thing, the original Bali attacks?as well as the subsequent bombings of Jakarta's Australian embassy and JW Marriott hotel?involved vehicles, whose metal frames absorbed telltale traces of the explosives used. The most recent bombs were set off by individuals carrying backpacks filled with explosives, which left only tiny amounts of residue for police to analyze, says a security official familiar with the investigation. It will be weeks...