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...level Rao seeks is global. Shangri-La has confined itself mainly to its home turf of Asia, where it is a well-known brand. But now Rao, a former accountant who became CEO in August, sees opportunity in crisis. He is undertaking a wide-ranging expansion that will take Shangri-La hotels to markets as diverse as Las Vegas and Doha. In January, the company launched its first Shangri-La hotel in North America, with the opening of a 119-room property in Vancouver. Japan will see its first open in March in Tokyo, and Europe later this year...
...hardscrabble past as the daughter of a drug-addicted, mixed-race petty criminal and a needy mother (a lesbian who lost the use of her arm in a motorbike crash - and no, that's not made up), Goody has been both icon and exponent of a wide strand of Englishness. Inadequately educated, a single parent to two boys, spilling out of nightclubs and ill-fitting dresses, she gave a human face to all those hand-wringing reports detailing Britain's stubborn social inequality and boozy irrepressibility. (See pictures of people drinking on the London Underground...
...detail. But that night, the occurrence of a sauna effect in our circular enclave in the restaurant’s windowed corner combined with my inability to grip my pen through my drenched palms prohibited me from tasting much or taking meaningful notes. As the rising steam opened wide our pores and nostrils to the scents of soy and sesame, I instead wrote notes to my fellow diners in the condensation on the windows behind us. The restaurant desperately needs some form of soundtrack (the B-52s, anyone?) beyond the sound of bubbles and diner laughter. Definitely wash the shabu...
...chances in extra time as well, but Minton came through with saves on good shots from Vaillancourt and junior Anna McDonald.The team’s biggest chance came just over two minutes into overtime, when a flurry of Crimson shots left Minton sprawled across the ice. Despite the wide-open net, Harvard couldn’t lift a shot into the goal. “To be honest, I thought they would have been lucky to get a tie from us, so [we’re] pretty disappointed with the way things turned out,” Kester said...
...House Master Judith S. Palfrey ’67 said that she was excited about a larger pool of “diverse” applicants in Adams. Joshua D. Goldman, a fellowships tutor in Lowell House, said that though the number of annual applicants varies “widely,” applications were “much higher” this year.Pforzheimer House Allston-Burr Resident Dean Lisa Boes said the House received “hundreds of applicants” this year, though she said she has yet to obtain a concrete number.NOT JUST NUMBERSBut Boes said...