Word: ritz
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...about a week, members of the neighborhood continued to place flowers at the door and even held a silent vigil for their friend last Tuesday evening. A handful of Crescent Street residents took the train to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston to attend Jenkins’ memorial service on Monday, where a crowd of 400 spilled into the hall. Besides his neighbors, Jenkins leaves behind his mother, Florence Deatherage of Kentucky, and two brothers, James Jenkins of Ohio and Jeff Jenkins of Kentucky...
...says he'll make the transition to coach, hoping to create two restaurants that last beyond his lifetime. "If it becomes unsuccessful after I leave, I've only achieved individual success, and I want success in a broader scope." Referring to the famous hotelier, he continues, "Cesar Ritz set a certain set of standards 100 years ago, and they still strive to meet those standards. He's truly a successful man because he created a set of standards to help [the staff] strive to be better, and not just at work, either." Pretty ambitious stuff for a cook. Especially when...
...21st century dawns, China again is on a mission to open itself to the world. Tens of thousands of individuals are on the journey, people like Gong Jian, a 30-year-old exporter I met over tea in the elegant Portman Ritz-Carlton hotel in Shanghai. His title might sound prosaic: manager of footwear department No. 2 for Shanghai Lansheng Corp. But he exemplifies the cosmopolitan business Elite in China's coastal cities, leading the export charge that explains why Magic Chef refrigerators and seemingly everything else on sale at the 3,500 Wal-Mart department stores in the United...
...million for the year. "It was a funny season for me golfwise, what with trying to get my game right again after the wrist thing. But overall I?d say I had a pretty good year." Better than pretty good, in other ways: On September 15th at the Ritz in Boston, he remarried, to the aforementioned Dory. "Dory?s a Rhode Islander too," says Faxon. "Everything?s good right now-the golf, the wrist and best of all Dory...
...Security aside, some hotels are simply becoming more female-friendly. Typical is the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong, which offers Luxury Amenities Designed for You. For $128 extra per stay, guests can enjoy Bulgari toiletries, silk pajamas, drawn baths and other services. Harbor-view doubles cost $237 per night until Sept. 3; call (852) 2877-6666. International airlines, too, are targeting women: Virgin Atlantic has in-flight beauty therapists, and South African Airways boasts departure lounge massages and arrival make-up facilities. And the world over, firms like Armstrong's are touting single-sex holidays?from cycling in Vietnam...