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...hotel costs--a custom I think of as conspicuous capitalization. If a hotel boasts about costing $1.6 billion, it's no wonder that my wife--who, like many people of royal birth brought up in middle-class American families through mix-ups at the hospital, prefers down pillows--might be inclined to bounce her fist off a hard rubber pillow and comment, "The money must be somewhere else...
...bloodbath, especially if upper-crust vacationers don't show up in the predicted numbers, leaving half-empty high-cost hotels. The Strip's bread-and-butter visitor isn't likely to trade up to $150-a-night rooms from $49 ones, even if there's a mint on the pillow. Hilton chief Bollenbach (who is also on the board at Time Warner, the parent company of TIME) is predicting 18 months of bruising battles, with older, smaller properties taking a hit from big outfits like...
...furniture in the presidential study. White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles provides comic relief when he makes his appearance. "Good morning, Mr. Bowles," says his interrogator. "I believe you have a device that you would like to inflate?" No, it wasn't a blowup doll; it was a pillow. And while the grand jurors wait, Bowles huffs and puffs and then tucks the cushion underneath himself...
...number of things have been done over the past couple of years to try to get at this problem in the places where it is most worrisome. There is quite a bit of education done for freshmen, including a pillow-dropped letter about alcohol that greets freshmen and their parents as they move in. Similarly, we sent a booklet of information to parents of all sophomores this year that mentions alcohol as a continuing concern. A lot of work was done with undergraduate organizations and teams last year to try to get the leadership to encourage responsible behavior...
...Come on, we can play NFL Blitz! It's so easy Pinky could learn it," I say, referring to the despicable, six-toed cat sleeping on my pillow. "First," says my wife, "some Bust-A-Move. No cheating...