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That kind of hotel really annoys Andrew Cosslett. So do concierges who act as though they are always too busy booking dinner reservations for the royal family to talk to you. "If you're a frequent business traveler, the differences at the margin are the things that make a huge difference," he says. "So what happens to your bag when you arrive at a hotel tells you all you need to know about that hotel's understanding of you, right...
...Gwyneth Paltrow in the 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums...
Tord Boontje (Rizzoli International Publications) Martina Margetts, who teaches at London's Royal College of Art, and Dutch product and furniture designer Tord Boontje collaborated on this comprehensive look at Boontje's designs over the past decade...
There's stiff competition - the handling of mad cow disease, the royal family's years of dysfunction - but it is hard to think of anything in modern times that has held Britain up to such, and such richly deserved, international contempt as the case of the 15 captured mariners in the Shatt al Arab. There was the original sin; messing about in lightly armed little boats in a waterway contested by Iran - a bit like poking a mad dog in the eye without being prepared to clobber it with a big stick if it bites. There has been the miserable...
...recent national poll gave Sarkozy 31.5% backing, against 24% for his Socialist rival Ségolène Royal (who, sinking in the polls, took her own stab at identity politics, suggesting in March that all French citizens should learn La Marseillaise). To some in Saint-Gilles, Sarkozy's allure is in his electability. "I'm voting for Sarkozy not only because I think he truly believes these policies are necessary," confides a retired Saint-Gilles farmer and past Le Pen voter who identifies himself only as André, "but also because Sarkozy has a far better chance of winning and applying them...