Word: meridien
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sinfully indulge in the staff of life at the Chocolate Bar at Cafe Fleuri every Saturday 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Le Meridien Hotel, 250 Franklin...
...will play. Barefoot, bare-chested youths in white cotton trousers will perform the traditional capoeira, a carefully choreographed martial art dating back to slavery that combines somersaults and kickboxing and prohibits contact with one's opponent. To showcase this feast of the senses, several major luxury chains--including the Meridien, Othon and Tropical groups--are offering packages for their hotels in Salvador, with costs starting at $300 a couple...
Raymond Ost, Julien, Hotel Meridien Rack of lamb Very nice pumpkin soup...
...group of 40 Bangladeshis employed at the Meridien Hotel were living in its basement. On Feb. 23, they say, a squad of Iraqi troops stormed in and gave them 10 minutes to get out. "They parked two tanks in front of the hotel and shelled it," says Rafiq Islam Bulu, 29, from Dhaka. "When we came back, it was on fire." The Bangladeshis, he adds, lost everything they owned. That night the Iraqis also destroyed the offices of Air France and Saudi Arabian Airlines, the Gulf Bank and Kuwait's largest building, al-Montana complex...
...fast enough. Dozens of men holding buckets gather around a dry water hose attached to a water tank, their faces expressing a fear just short of panic. "Please, we've been standing here for nine hours waiting for water," says Romis Ali, 45, a Bangladeshi who worked at the Meridien Hotel in Kuwait City. Ali, in his second week at the camp, hasn't had anything to drink in 20 hours. He had his last meal, a slice of stale bread, two days...