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...course, a little human kindness comes in short supply when things get choppy. Consider a three-day power outage in Georgetown that played havoc with the Monarch's air conditioning over a steamy June weekend. It created textbook examples of good and bad guest behavior. There was the jerk who spent 15 minutes screaming for a cooler room--hey, was that you? The obnoxious one ultimately got what he asked for. But so did the guest who simply requested to be relocated. The only difference was 14 minutes of unpleasantness for everyone in the hotel lobby. "That kind of rudeness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put a Sock in It | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...weeks, the United Nations will host a special session in New York to discuss the state of children on a global scale. The three-day meeting will be a gathering of nearly one-hundred heads of state, first spouses and more than 1000 other delegates representing governments and NGO’s world-wide to discuss and debate the state of children in the world and set goals for improving their conditions in the future...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Abandoning Our Children | 9/11/2001 | See Source »

...TSTW could count the ways, from Argentina to Zurich, from anemia in the eurozone to the fall of the house of the Rising Sun, that there might still be a bear out there. But merely coming back to work from a three-day weekend is depressing enough - we?ll wait for the economic reports of fall to tell that tale. And at least the investors seem so happy to be back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Street This Week: The Return of the Big Money | 9/4/2001 | See Source »

...great thing about Friday is it's the last day of August, and the last day before the three-day Labor Day weekends puts the kibosh on this turgid trading summer and brings the real money back from the Hamptons and into play. July factory orders and the Chicago Purchasing Managers' manufacturing report for August are expected to show that sector in continuing decline, though there's some hope that the trend is headed back up to zero after last week's durable goods number. Dare we look for another Friday pop? Well, on a day likely to be peppered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Street This Week: He Who Hesitates | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...toned hand-wringing that elevated impeachment. Of course, with its sinister twist - the still missing Levy - the Condit saga could still mutate into the ultimate in O.J.-Clinton unholy spawn. But that would take a corpse or a confession, and it's unlikely Rep. Gary Condit has arranged a three-day press blitz to offer either one of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: August News Drought? Gary Condit to the Rescue | 8/23/2001 | See Source »

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