The great poet and author Maya Angelou didn't discover poetry until her mentor took her to the tiny library at her school and challenged her to read every book in the room.
Mandy watched her father study the book from across the room.
No, the big enchilada for Skilling is neither Enron 's failed broadband division nor its retail energy business, as Bethany McLean reports him predicting in The Smartest Guys in the Room, the book she co-authored with fellow Fortune reporter Peter Elkind.
"The IGF Secretariat approved the request by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) for a room on the first day of the Forum to promote the book Access Controlled and a room was allocated for that purpose, " it said in a statement.
Then, soak your wary legs in the hot tub and curl up with a book by the fireplace in your room.
Critic Ciment asked Kubrick why he switched the hotel room number from the book's 217 to 237.
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Guests are notified of the no-tipping policy after they book a room and are reminded of the policy upon arrival at the hotel.
Now you grab the keyboard and with a few clicks have a sales brochure sent to your home -- or maybe even book a room at the spa, plus an airline reservation.
If you need utter seclusion and five-star luxury to achieve Nirvana, book a room in the Como Shambala Estate overlooking the Ayung River in Bagawan village, about 12km northwest of Ubud.
Additionally, she usually keeps a lighted candle in the room, favoring black or jewel-toned ones from Dyptique, Rigaud or Taffin for the holidays. (She cautions against placing this candle on the back of a toilet, where the flame could set someone's hair on fire.) Ms. Kemble will also leave a book of matches in the room.
He's also the co-author of the book, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
The game itself doesn't start until more than a third of the way through the book, so the there's plenty of room for Kettmann's set-up, before he goes into a virtual box score in the remaining chapters.
We also have phrasebook apps for when you want to order a beer or book a hotel room on the go but do not know the lingo.
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Martyn Hall and civil partner Steven Preddy, from Bristol, tried to book a double room at the Chymorvah Private Hotel in Marazion near Penzance in 2008, but were refused.
Author Ian McEwan boarded the boat in 2005 and has only just revealed that his new book, "A Boot Room in The Frozen North, " is about climate change.
The girl with the soda snapped a few photographs of the reception area and the empty conference room next to it and signed the guest book.
My acclaimed book on public speaking, Working the Room: How to Move People to Action through Audience-Centered Speaking, was published by Harvard in 2003 and reprinted in paperback in 2005 as Give Your Speech, Change the World: How to Move Your Audience to Action.
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Like the book on which it is based, the film will attempt to take viewers inside the room to see the choices that needed to be made as the economy went into a tailspin fueled by toxic mortgages two-plus years ago.
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His lunch, which he ate on his own in an enormous, empty dining room while reading a book under the absentminded gaze of the elderly maid, and the black-and-white gaze of his deceased wife looking out from photographs in ornate silver frames, was light: soup and a small portion of fish and mashed potatoes, some of which he would allow to go cold.
On a recent visit, I enjoyed drinks and snacks in the low-lit, book-lined Library Room.
Use the iPad on the nightstand to order room service, book a massage or make dinner reservations.
Book a hotel room through Tingo.com and the new site will rebook it, free of charge, if the hotel lowers its rate.
Book the Penthouse, 2, 600 square feet of luxury right under the roof, with muscular beams in the living room to prove it.
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Fitting so many traders and salesmen together into a single, cavernous room won UBS a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Thus fiction fashioned by practitioners of another profession can be refreshing for the information and insights that experience outside a book-lined room provides.
It is advisable to book well in advance for a room, and to join the crowds in the centre of Piazza del Campo at least four hours before the start for a good view.
And when we left a book behind in our room at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore, the staff emailed us within 10 minutes of our departure offering to send it on to our next location.
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Just book your flights and a room for 3-5 nights and expect the unexpected.
Other options include condo hotels and residence clubs where you own a hotel room or a percentage of a property and you can book the amount of time you want to spend.
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