Word: touchings
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...Rooms are simply but stylishly appointed with teak furniture, while the odd family heirloom and pieces of pottery hand-painted by Nantiya lend a homely feel. Bathrooms feature toiletries custom blended according to one of four aromatic themes?lemongrass, jasmine, orchid and rice. Another pleasing touch is the Tulyanonds' commitment to the environment and the community: showers pump out solar-heated water and the inn's construction incorporates salvaged wood. Guests wanting to do more to save the world can make a donation at checkout to one of the animal or children's charities on the Tulyanonds' list...
...during my time here, I’d love to take this opportunity to re-write the past. As a columnist, I got some stuff right, and even more stuff wrong. My final act will be to expose the latter, and in a move that is seemingly out of touch with journalistic practices, make a huge deal out of the corrections...
French businessman malamine Koné is talking a very big game. The 34-year-old founder and ceo of sportswearmaker Airness is explaining his goal of boosting his company's 2005 sales of $150 million - mostly in France - to rival global giant Nike's some $14 billion. Sound a touch fanciful? Don't tell Koné. "You know where Puma was five years ago? Deeply troubled," Koné says of the now-thriving German-American sportswear group, whose own sales last year exceeded $2 billion. "And six years ago, Airness scarcely existed. We didn't get this far this fast...
...late in the morning at the Wadi al-Salaam cemetery by the time Sheik Jamal and his volunteers have completed their grim mission. The 72 bodies have been sprayed with disinfectant, wrapped in shrouds and buried. Sheik Jamal thanks the gravediggers, shaking their hands. "I will be in touch," he says. "I'll call and let you know how many [graves] we need next week." Stretching out into the desert, the graveyard is unlikely to run out of space. And since the killings of Iraqis show no sign of slowing, Sheik Jamal will not run out of bodies either...
...from corporate boards, she still sits on executive boards for research institutes.During the reunion, Whitman will participate in a symposium titled “Globalization: Sorting Facts From Fiction.”Even though Whitman and Cronin went their separate ways after freshman year, Cronin says they remained in touch and now vacation together. “She travels the world, but she doesn’t forget the rest of us,” Cronin says. “When she makes a friend, she makes a friend for life.”—Staff writer Lulu...