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They Called My Place the Pits, Claimed It’s Sub-Luxury; But It’s Named the Ritz, and They Can’t Take That Away From Me

Pity the poor soul who’s doing PR these days for John Coleman, the owner of Washington’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Must be something like trying to get toothpaste back in the tube. First came a front-page story in The Washington Post saying, in so many words, that Coleman’s creditors consider him a deadbeat deluxe. Then came another blast of bad ink in

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