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...fact, northern Michigan is a year-round vacation wonderland--the Midwest's version of Hilton Head in the summer and Vail in the winter...
...Sunday, Feb. 16, board members got the first calls summoning them to a special meeting in New York City. On Thursday, they voted 21 to 1 to bounce Nicholas, who had pointedly declined to attend. Rejecting an offer of a company plane that would pick him up in Vail, Colo., Nicholas chose instead to continue a family skiing vacation and sent his so-called resignation to New York...
This year, almost twice as many items were auctioned, ranging from massages and home-cooked meals donated by Kennedy School students to a basketball signed by the 1991 NCAA Champion Duke Blue Devils, which went for $160, to a spring break vacation in Vail, Colorado which netted...
Apart from the apparent impropriety of some of his travel arrangements, Sununu may be involved in a conflict of interest stemming from efforts to help a major ski developer. During his first Ski magazine weekend, in Vail, Colo., in 1989, Sununu was joined by an old political associate, Philip T. Gravink, who runs the Loon Mountain ski resort in New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest. Gravink was a contributor to Sununu's political campaigns and let Sununu and his family ski for free when Sununu was Governor. At the time of the Vail event, Gravink had an application pending...
Upon his return from Vail, Gravink wrote a letter to Sununu at the White House, describing the expansion he wanted. Sununu passed the letter to the EPA and the Forest Service and followed up with what one well-informed Washington official described as "a lot of bullying and bluster" that "made clear what outcome the White House wanted in this case...