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...Largo, Fla., where guests scuba dive to the entry of their underwater accommodations. "This is a real trend for the traveler who has been there, done that," says Mary Tabacchi, professor of hotel management at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. "There's a whole market segment of travelers in Europe, the U.S. and Asia who are no longer just looking for a place to hang their suit and plug in their laptop. They want a hotel with interesting things...
...During a segment of her performance when she assumed the role of her old grandmother—a character she plays hunched over, with thick glasses and a heavy Chinese accent—she recalled a particular phrase that gave her confidence in her ethnic looks...
...segment was taped in mid-August, but Golder had to wait until the show’s recent airing to taste his fame...
...dismayed by the convenient suspension of “free speech” to suit a self-determined prejudice against its practice, however justified (News, “Poet Flap Drew Summers’ Input,” Nov. 14). One cannot have a polarized and politically determined segment of the society, even with a seeming righteousness, proscribe for the body politic—in this case, the whole social body of Harvard’s community—what is fit for their ears and what not. As a poet and teacher I protest entirely this self-ordained presumption...
...battles of combating racism will not be waged in the cornfields where the Klan rallies of my Ohio upbringing took place—the views of that select and diminishing segment will never again be accepted in mainstream society—but rather we must be vigilant about the proxies through which their biases still find an outlet. The current fight is against the subtle, yet painfully consistent, message of bigotry that language and demeanor can convey. Even more insidious can be the manifestation of racism when these attitudes are recognized and tacitly accepted by those in position to prevent...