Word: rebel
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...Boutique hotels often over-compensate for their lack of size - and rebel against the cookie-cutter monotony of chain hotels - by going overboard on design. But Naumi, Singapore's latest boutique hotel, thankfully emphasizes the fundamentals - and very decent they are too. Located in the city center, just across from the Raffles Hotel, Naumi provides 40 good-sized rooms kitted out with quality amenities (think Aesop toiletries and organic teas), as well as stylish technology (wi-fi, portable IP-enabled phones and an iPod dock...
Back in Pristina, where preparations for independence day are under way, Thaci is putting the finishing touches to a personal makeover from irascible rebel leader to buttoned-down politico. In Kosovo's recent election campaign, he focused not on questions of independence but instead on energy supplies (those power outages), road-building and economic development. "I made mistakes in the past. But I've changed," Thaci says. After all the blood that's been shed there, let's hope that's true of his native land...
CORRECTION: The Nov. 13 news article "Peers Recall Quieter Mailer" misquoted Martin Lubin '43, a roommate of Norman K. Mailer '43. Lubin described Mailer as a "rebel without a pause," not a "rebel without a cause...
...brief telephone interview, Lubin remembered Mailer as “a rebel without a cause.” [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...This production’s other conceptual flourish is its treatment of Caliban, a grotesque, half-formed savage who has particularly fascinated directors since the rise of postcolonial theory in the 1950s. Because Caliban is enslaved by the exiled European duke Prospero, he is sometimes portrayed as a heroic rebel, or at least as a more “noble savage...