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Even with Japan's lingering economic malaise, a record number of Japanese travelers - 18.4 million, up 4% on 2000 - are expected to head abroad this year. A reshuffling of midweek public holidays means an additional eight three-day breaks - and many of these will be spent on short package trips elsewhere in Asia. Current favorite destinations are South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Bali and Hong Kong. "Every major hotel has someone assigned to specifically service the Japanese," says a guest relations coordinator at a five-star Bangkok hotel. "They are a very big market...
...support for the Ivy Council immediately. For years the council has dedicated its financial support and personal efforts to the Ivy Council while reaping returns that are dismal at best. Time and again, Ivy Council meetings have proven to be an unproductive waste of resources—at a three-day meeting in New York in 1999, Ivy Council members engaged in only three hours of meetings on tangible issues of student life. Indeed, the most well-known idea generated by the Ivy Council was the failed Census 2000 of Fentrice D. Driskell ’01 and John...
...three-day battle beginning on April 17 was, of course, a disaster. The strategic concept was faulty, the tactics worse, the forces and weapons inadequate, the intelligence abysmally off the mark. The idea was that between 1,400 and 1,500 Cuban exiles bolstered by U.S. training and equipment would march triumphantly from the Bay of Pigs into Havana where the people would rise against Castro. If that did not happen, the force was to slip into the mountains and launch guerrilla warfare. Instead they were captured by Cuba's 20,000 troops, leaving Castro to stand even taller astride...
...With a three-day weekend to think about it, the big money could wind up looking at four thin-but-happy rallies and decide that emergency Fed intervention really is a fantasy. Putting everybody back in a bad mood for Easter Monday...
...spin in different European cities every week, trailed by a transnational community of fans. "There are stronger communions that cut across national identity," says Eric Tong-Cuong, the founder of the French record company Naive. Events like London's Notting Hill Carnival and the Love Parade, the annual three-day outdoor rave in Berlin, have become massive pan-European parties. "Our generation functions tribally but you can belong to several tribes at the same time...