Word: mayer
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...Minding Her Manners In her review of the Tuscan hotel L'Andana [Sept. 4], Catherine Mayer says the general manager might remember her as "the Guest from Hell: high maintenance, capricious and, quite frankly, badly behaved." She adds, "I was only doing my job." But was it really necessary for her to engage in the absolutely obnoxious behavior she went on to describe? I'm sure that by the time she and her companions got through with the staff and management of L'Andana, the smug trio left behind more than a few bad feelings. I have close friends...
...Most travel writers are overly indulgent in their praise of the hotels they visit-and often boring. Mayer, on the contrary, definitely wants to be noticed. I was shocked by her misbehavior at L'Andana and can only imagine the utter disgust of the hotel's other guests and staff. I suspect that, as Mayer reported, L'Andana's well-trained sommelier smartly guided Mayer and her company away from the most valued wines, knowing full well that serving it to them would have been throwing pearls before swine. Janie Berquist Phellipon St. Denis-La Chevasse, France...
...site. "To believe that Yahoo!, Ask and Microsoft are not going to improve and take share from Google is naive," says Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn. He likens this period to the DOS era of search, with a major scramble ahead for the next generation of search tools. Google's Mayer agrees that the vanilla results page that Google and others serve today will probably morph into something categorically different, with images, videos and even conversations among Web users replacing static text links...
...product launches tied to its powerful website. From spreadsheet software to online word processing and a digital payment service, the company seems to offer new stuff every day. Free, for the most part, the offerings are dumped onto Google's "more" or "labs" page, in seemingly random order. Mayer wants to streamline that process, helping return Google to its roots in simplicity. "Users aren't going to remember our 50-plus products. They'll remember three to five. We need more features and fewer products," she says...
...second round, only two of the Crimson’s five players managed to break 80, while Brendan Ray of Central Connecticut state added a 73 to his first round 71, taking the individual medal and leading his team to a second-place finish. Harvard freshman Danny Mayer, whose rounds of 77 and 78 made him the highest team finisher at No. 16 overall, echoed the sentiments of his teammates when he pointed to the Crimson’s poor putting as a day-long struggle. “Our team was probably one of the worst teams this week...