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Pokodner spent 230 nights in hotel rooms last year, a grueling schedule relieved somewhat by the presence of his wife and four kids, whom he brings along as often as possible for their company and their insights. (The kids, he says, have developed particularly sharp eyes for bad service.) On a recent trip to a top hotel in Korea, Pokodner checked on the cleanliness of the rooms, the smileyness of the concierge and the juiciness of the restaurant's tenderloin-and-shrimp brochette. His approach is straightforward. "I act like any other guest," he says, but one who pays unusually...
...dismay of an older generation of feminists, more and more brides are making the same decision. According to a recent study by Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin, the number of college-educated brides keeping their birth names ("maiden" being a somewhat unrealistic descriptor) has been falling fast. Goldin drew her data from Massachusetts birth records, New York Times wedding announcements and information kept on Harvard alumnae. For example, 10 years after graduation, 44% of married women in the Harvard class of 1980 had kept their birth names. In the class of 1990, it was just 32%. An informal poll taken...
Dorm Crew workers say they have found that they are working against somewhat of a stigma...
Zebrowski-Rubin agrees that the day-to-day experience of Dorm Crew employees can be somewhat...
News professionals around the country were somewhat hesitant last week to second-guess Newsweek's editorial judgments. They don't need to be told that even the most conscientious among them can make an error. But many believe the magazine made a series of questionable judgments that together led it into trouble...