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...hospitality industry hasn't exactly been a hotbed of innovation. There have been some new ideas over the decades, it is true. In 1952, for example, Kemmons Wilson built the first Holiday Inn and revolutionized American motels by introducing standardization and emphasizing cleanliness and value. The era of the big convention-oriented hotels checked in during the 1970s. And in 1984, New York City nightclub entrepreneur Ian Schrager came up with the boutique hotel concept. But for the most part, the basic business model has changed little: sell travelers perfectly acceptable yet generic places to stay for the night...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled yesterday to uphold the decision of a lower-court judge to grant a retrial in the high-profile case of Alexander Pring-Wilson, a former Harvard graduate student who was convicted in 2004 of fatally stabbing a Cambridge teenager...
...much-publicized Pring-Wilson saga began on the morning of Apr. 12, 2003 when he fatally stabbed 18-year-old Michael D. Colono five times in seventy seconds during an altercation outside a Western Avenue pizza parlor...
...Peter Parker, the defense attorney for Pring-Wilson, was pleased with the SJC’s verdict...
...junior Alex Lewis won the decathlon with 6,366 points, and freshman George Eggers took the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 55.75. Several other women claimed top finishes. Sophomore Shannon Flahive finished second in the 100-meter hurdles in 14.64 seconds, and classmate Dara Wilson was fifth. Sophomore Kelli Okuji ran a 1:06.36 to finish second in the 400-meter hurdles. Flahive earned her second top-two placement of the day by taking second in the long jump with a 5.52 meter jump, and fellow sophomore Elissa Reidy finished third. The javelin continued...