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...addition to the Charles, the Ritz-Carlton, the Nine Zero, the Eliot, and the Westin all received a four-diamond rating from the Automobile Association of America this year; the Four Seasons received the only five-diamond rating in Massachusetts...
INAUGURATION, INC. What's a big event without the product tie-ins? Korbel has created a special Inaugural champagne, left; Washington's Ritz Carlton Hotel is serving presidential-seal desserts; drivers can purchase one of two commemorative license plates, though neither is valid in any state...
...Those complications, however, haven't stopped the political sparring overseas. Last Thursday the Democrats and Republicans Abroad held a debate in Hong Kong's Ritz-Carlton hotel attended by a spirited audience more than double the size that showed up in previous election years. One spectator was Tom Goetz, a former member of Republicans Abroad whose anger over Iraq, where his son is a U.S. intelligence officer, has prompted him to support Kerry. "I never saw this much interest and conflict among the two sides," he says, looking around the crowded ballroom. For Americans in 2004, political passion doesn...
...Florida's Governor Jeb, battened down his state for another big blow, Hurricane Frances. They watched with pride as half a dozen relatives caucused in delegations from Maryland, Connecticut, Missouri and Rhode Island. When Bill Marriott, the hotel impresario, sprang for a Bush-family dinner at the downtown Ritz-Carlton, 96 people jammed the room. "Lot of unfamiliar straphangers in there," declared the former President...
...Ritz it ain't. Christina Ast's idea of a great summer vacation is mucking out cowsheds and picking potatoes with her three daughters and their children at Heinrich Winkelmann's farm on the heaths in Lower Saxony in northern Germany. At night, they bed down in the barn on a layer of hay. Never mind the mice audibly scurrying around in the dark or the spiders that crawl into their sleeping bags. "It's the most wonderful experience," says Ast, 47, a health-care administrator from Halle/Saale. "The hay is beautifully soft and warm and it crackles when...