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...Phuket?the first resort he created in 1988. Cigar in hand, his youthful demeanor belying his 68 years, he is explaining how it felt to remove himself from Amanresorts, the luxury resort chain he founded and nurtured for more than a decade before a shareholder dispute over its parent company forced his two-year hiatus. "When you have a two-year-old child, you definitely are indispensable," says Zecha. "At 12 you are to a lesser degree. At 22 even less so. When I left, I felt it was still too soon. But in hindsight it was the right thing...
...shift: fairy lights began appearing on trees. Resorts started to charge for little extras. New employees weren't imbued with the Zecha mantra of "creative service." Since his return in October, however, Zecha?who now has full management control of Amanresorts, while the firms of two longtime friends control parent company Silverlink Holdings?has been on a mission to re-instill some of the lost passion. "The changes were less physical and more philosophical," he says. "Not everyone who was hired while I was gone was privy to the concept and culture...
...Spacey, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Jude Law regularly show up and don cheesy wigs and Wal-Mart dresses to perform mini-sketches. There are usually a slew of inside references to the Weinstein brothers, who created and run Miramax. Last year I observed Michael Eisner (chairman of Miramax parent company Disney) watching the proceedings with all the intensity of an attendee at the Oberammergau passion play...
...very small group of 7-10 students from K-5th grade, allowing them to truly monitor and witness the development of their charges through time? With this level of commitment over a number of years, a grade-school teacher becomes less of a teacher and more of an extra parent, augmenting whatever existing family structure there is at home, eliminating those children growing up without long-term adult support. With this level of individualized attention, cracks in the system close, and each child is guaranteed individual, intensive attention just when their understanding of the world is just starting to solidify...
...course, it's easier to state the distinction than to get kids to understand or trust it. Young children, especially, often fear that if they tell on another kid, both will get in trouble. To get around that, parents need to keep their cool to show children that they can be safely confided in. Once a young child brings information home, a parent must handle it with other grownups--taking it out of the child's hands. The act of telling is hard enough; parents shouldn't further burden kids by asking them to fix things...