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...conclusion in the World Travel Organization's annual report receives a resounding endorsement from executives on the ground: "Tourists shifted their travel habits during this period of time; they chose closer and less-expensive destinations." Philip Yong, a leading tour operator in Sarawak, says, "If it weren't for domestic travelers from peninsular Malaysia, [hotel occupancy] would be in single digits here." Gert Kopera, general manager of the Dharmawangsa, the Rosewood-operated boutique hotel in Jakarta, predicts that "hotels at the top end, like us, will do all right and so will the hotels at the bottom." In other words...
HIGH HOPES. The film, from the era of reemergent New British Cinema, was released in 1988 and directed by Bristish Independent filmmaker Mike Leigh. High Hopes follows the story of an English couple, Cyril (Philip Davis), a motorcycle messenger, and his wife Shriley (Ruth Sheen). The couple live with Cyril’s mother and become invoved in the sagas of his mother’s neighbors and his sister. Shirley yearns to be a mother, but Cyril, a Marxist, wants to live in a utopia and is reluctant to start a family. High Hopes screens Saturday, August...
...grass, and "edge" trips, where you are charged big bucks to risk your life scaling or jumping off something. There's also the wellness jaunt, where you try to buy back misspent youth in a spa. And then there are excursions for culture vultures, those the English poet Philip Larkin called "ruin-bibbers, randy for antique." Whatever form vacation takes, we keep on doing it - we may even want to do it more to escape all the talk of terror and war. We are escapaholics convinced that this time we will definitely "get away from it all," returning...
...alums of the College, Angela L. Duckworth ’92 and Philip King ’92, founded Summerbridge Cambridge in 1992 to bring the Summerbridge programs that existed elsewhere in the nation to Cambridge...
...government isn't disbanding yet, nor have all its members gone into overdrive to clean up their acts. In the middle of last week's demonstration, pro-Tung legislators leaving the Legco building used a bus to get through the crowds of protesters; news photographers snapped one politician, Philip Wong, flashing his middle finger at the people outside. He candidly explained the following day that he had drunk too much during Legco debates the previous night. Then, with remarkable insouciance, he fell asleep during that day's session...