Word: ritz
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...Room 1002 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Arlington, Va., and Suite 521 at the Regency Hotel in New York have something in common besides king-size beds and minibars: notoriety for two of the most respected names in sports broadcasting. Last Thursday, at a packed news conference in yet another hotel, the Sheraton New York, Albert said, "I would like to reassert my innocence and reiterate that all the charges against me are false." He then vowed to continue working the N.B.A. play-offs for NBC. In attendance were his four children, one of whom is also a sportscaster...
...planned to take a vacation without her. In an affidavit filed with the District of Columbia Superior Court, the woman's ex-boyfriend says he received three threatening cell phone calls from the woman on March 13, about one month before the alleged incident with Albert at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. In one call, the boyfriend claims she told him that police "are going to find four bodies: you, your girlfriend, your dog and me," if he left without her. The woman, who resides in Vienna, Va., goes to trial on July 30 and faces up to six months...
...sportscaster known as the voice of the New York Knicks, has been indicted on charges of assault and sodomy. His accuser, a 41-year-old female friend from Vienna, Va., claims that Albert viciously bit her several times on the back during a Feb. 12 argument in his Ritz-Carlton hotel room in Washington, D.C. Albert then allegedly forced the woman to perform oral sex, according to the indictment. Albert was in town for a match between the Knicks and the Washington Bullets in nearby Landover, Md. In a statement, the sportscaster said the charges against him were false...
...heroes, foreign dignitaries or close personal friends of the First Family. Under Clinton's custody, the bedroom was leased to investment bankers, real estate developers, lawyers and actors. As one commentator put it, on some busy evenings the "people's house" must have looked like the lobby of a Ritz-Carlton...
Swimming at the Ritz at the peak of her influence? What a perfect exit, an elegant ending she could not have planned better...