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...This project will rip the soul out of Montmartre," says Michel Langlois, a butcher and third-generation Montmartrois who has organized a petition against the Green Village project. "This is another attempt by City Hall to make Paris into one, uniform city. We won't have...
...Ebb’s script. Quinn: [Juan and I] actually got to see a production when we were home over Thanksgiving. I thought it was so interesting, and that there were so many things that can be done with it. Unfortunately, the production we saw was a blatant rip-off of the Broadway production. I was just looking at it like, “Come on, there’s so much room for innovation!” I started thinking of ideas in the middle of the show, and Juan started putting in comments. By the end he came...
...picked the right place to stress-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...
Probably since the second generation of humanity, it has been a widely accepted bit of folk wisdom that kids are worse off than their forebears. Our ancestors surely thought the kids just didn't rip the hides from big game with the same skill as Grandpa. Now we think teens are wastrels who get high on OxyContin and rouse themselves only to shoot up a school or update their MySpace profiles. But there's strong evidence that U.S. adolescents are actually getting smarter--or at least making better decisions. Could the teen brain be evolving...
Schwarzman is frank about this: "I think the public markets are overrated," he has said. Anyway, if you think private-equity firms are ripping off the rest of us, you'll soon be able to join in the rip-off yourself when Blackstone goes public...