Word: ritz
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...perhaps no luxury-hotel brand has ventured as far into voluntourism as Ritz-Carlton. Since the company launched its "Give Back Getaways" in April 2008, more than 2,000 vacationers have signed up in dozens of locations around the globe. Sue Stephenson, vice president of the company's "Community Footprints" initiative, says the half-day programs range from assisting local food banks to participating in music therapy for disabled kids...
...trend hit two Harvard Square businesses this weekend. Sweet offered cupcakes with the Mad Men logo while playing 1960s music, and Noir at the Charles Hotel offered Draper’s Drink cocktails and Ritz cracker retro snacks to customers watching the season finale...
...brought with him some new ideas. For Interbank to thrive, he reasoned, it had to be globally competitive. So the company set about benchmarking top performers--Southwest Airlines, Ritz-Carlton and, of course, a few banks--to understand what it would take. "We started learning, and little by little we started recruiting," he says. Now there are some 50 U.S.-trained Peruvian M.B.A.s on staff...
...years, what inspired you to finally sit down and write a memoir? I actually had tried it once, about 10 years ago. I thought I could do it myself, but I ended up having to give the money back. I didn't finish it. Later, I ran into David Ritz, who is my co-author, at a Bon Jovi rehearsal. He had written the Ray Charles biography. So I knew who he was, and he asked if I ever wanted to do a book...
This tragic discovery came just hours after Le was expected to marry Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky in an outdoor ceremony at the North Ritz Club on Long Island. The families canceled the wedding last Friday—three days after Le first went missing...