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...test budget lodging concepts. The average cost of a London hotel room is $234 a night, making the city one of the priciest in the world. Beecham says it was his personal experiences as a consumer - specifically, his distaste for what he calls "rip-off" charges for things like phone calls and movies - that inspired him to go into the business. He built a traditional hotel, but lowered costs by making careful choices in siting and design. Rooms at the Hoxton are all 20 sq m in size, roughly 20% smaller than those you'll find in conventional hotels...
...Hoxton's phone and movie fees are rock-bottom, and the only thing in the minibars is a carton of milk and two bottles of water, all free. Yet the Hoxton doesn't feel cheap. Rooms include touches such as Egyptian cotton sheets and duck-down duvets. Beecham calls them "beautiful little boxes people can stay in." Standard rates start as low as $115, and the typical traveler pays about $190 a night - roughly 18% less than the London average. Since opening, the Hoxton has been 100% full. "If it was twice the price, there would be nobody here," Beecham...
...their spring scramble to secure hosts for Harvard’s newest admits. It starts every April, when each of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program’s (UMRP) five divisions—for African American, Asian American, Latino American, Mexican American, and Native American students—host phone-a-thons to call admitted students. “At the end of our conversation [with these students] we ask if they’re coming to Prefrosh Weekend, and particularly with the Asian students we ask if they’re interested in being paired with a minority host...
...There may well be instances that get by us every year. There’s no way to know for sure,” he said in a phone interview...
...After the proposed legislation was announced, Cave says she was overwhelmed with e-mails and phone calls from jurors across the state who had been haunted by what they saw and heard during their service. "My heart goes out to them. These are people who are trying to do their job - people like me, people with a couple of kids who have to go home from this each day and cook supper, do homework," Cave says. "The more they are told not to talk about something, the harder it becomes to ever talk about...