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...next 12 months are about getting the rest of the brand to the finish line. "Convincing the first person to sign up is easy," says analyst Champion. "Convincing the last person is much harder." IHG is going to have to do a good job of showing cash-constrained owners what returns they can get - and proving to road warriors that the changes have created a better hotel. "We've got to meet or exceed guest expectations consistently across the brand," says Bill DeForest, who counts one Holiday Inn among his 10 hotels and manages another, "or we're toast...
...facility may not be a smoking gun - it hasn't even been loaded yet - but it is a covert operation of some sort, perhaps a bomb-making facility, perhaps a research-and-development shop. It is the latest evidence in Iran's history of attempting to hoodwink the rest of the world about its nuclear program. A similar game was played with the uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz, which was exposed...
...abuse as prisoners. For Robert, the question is not so much whether men and women will be treated differently in capture - he doesn't believe they would be - but whether male soldiers could watch a woman being tortured and react in a way that wouldn't endanger the rest of the troops or inspire them to reveal state secrets. "The attitude with men [in capture] is just 'Suck it in and welcome to captivity,' but if they watching a woman suffer like that, it's a whole different ball game...
Strangely, it is Berlusconi who has not let the incident rest. He called his critics "imbeciles," saying the remark was meant as a compliment. "We'd all like to be tanned like Naomi Campbell and Obama," he said two weeks after the original one-liner. He has made other references to it in the months since. (See Berlusconi's worst gaffes...
...that's telling in itself. In many ways, mainstream Italian society is several generations behind the rest of the West when it comes to race. In supposedly polite company, one can still hear the word negro, (pronounced neh-grow) which essentially translates to the N word. A cleaning woman is often generically referred to as a "Filippina." Northern Italians joke that darker-skinned southerners are "Moroccans...