Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the edict, one room has already been booked. The guest? Former President George Bush. He was in Philly giving a speech and asked for the $1,400-a-night Presidential Suite at the Rittenhouse Hotel. Who could say no? Not David Benton, the tony hostelry's general manager, who has been taking "tongue-in-cheek flak" from his competitors ever since. But the rule that no rooms can be booked still stands, says Rendell, unless "the person asking to book the room is a former President whose son is the leading contender...
...Party is not slated already. If a candidate can get on enough ballots, then he's eligible for a national primary--an open-door affair in which any eligible voter who requests a Reform ballot can participate. On paper, at least, the rules are fair. But there's still room for mischief. Republicans or Democrats can sabotage the Reform Party's primary, flooding it with ballots in an effort to nominate someone who would most hurt their opponent...
...poster girls for the Valley's new emphasis on business creativity. "I've never been conscious of being a woman in doing this," says Herrin. But there are still moments when it confronts them. When she walked into a meeting with Kleiner Perkins, Lefcourt "looked around and thought, 'This room is huge and filled with men.' It occurred to me then that I must be a woman." And yet their pitch was convincing precisely because they could explain the nuances of wedding registries to highly credulous men. "We had an instinctive understanding of something they didn't really get," Lefcourt...
...months the company's founders have crammed 10 people into an office the size of a dorm room. There are two computers on each of the four folding tables. The employees wear headphones to muffle the din of co-workers chattering inches away from them. MongoMusic's executives hold management meetings in the middle of the room. A network cable droops from the ceiling and disappears into a hole in the wall, connecting the office to a similar one next door, where eight more headphoned employees hunch over keyboards. When the door opens and a stranger walks in, everybody looks...
...every man can wear white fur and diamonds and still get the babes. But not every man is PUFF DADDY. When the rap mogul visited Paris to promote his latest album, he shipped 18 trunks of clothing, 45 pairs of shoes and two stylists, and booked a hotel room exclusively for his wardrobe. Between outfit changes, Puff found time to attend the couture shows and preen for October's Vogue (accessorized by model KATE MOSS). "I'm just a regular superstar," he demurs. As if there were such a thing...