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Art
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Let Freedumb Run!
A lumberjack protesting Bush
and the Iraq war runs through downtown Miami every Friday wearing only socks,
sneakers and a really patriotic thong.
Hate Mail
You know it’s a brutal
election when a Teletubby, a Barbie doll and Dora the Explorer are used in
bigoted campaign flyers.
Financial Priorities
Dr. Enrique Davila practices
medicine at and donates money to Mount Sinai Medical Center. Now, he’s
questioning how it uses its donations.
News
Miami-Dade
The county needs qualified
professionals to run its government, but it seems too few of them live here.
Miami
The
once-doomed Coconut Grove Playhouse is on the road to recovery.
Miami Beach
Fontainebleau's developer screwed with a neighboring resort when he built a
tower that cast a massive shadow over its pool. Now officials want to preserve
the wall of spite.
Bay
Harbor
Islands
The county
prevents homeowners from building boat docks in sensitive waters close to
shore, but the town forbids them from building docks more than 8 feet long.
What’s a
boater to do?
Surfside
The Town Commission agreed to protect sea grass from damaging
boat docks, but they can’t settle arguments about how to name town streets,
parks and buildings.
Aventura
The city approves a deal to build a library and performing arts
complex and agrees to make sure its schools can fit future residents.
COLUMNS
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POWER WOMEN 2007 |
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Maria Sastre |
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 Sales
and marketing guru Maria Sastre hasn't met a board of directors
she didn't want to join. Sastre sits on the boards of Darden
Restaurants (parent of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze
and Smokey Bones restaurants), Laidlaw International, Greyhound
and Publix Supermarkets. She is a director and trustee of the
United Way of Dade County, the New World Symphony and the Beacon
Council. And she’s an executive board member of the Greater
Miami Chamber of Commerce.
Sastre’s main gig, however, is travel and
tourism. After holding managerial positions at Continental
Airlines and Eastern Airlines, Sastre joined United Airlines in
1992 as the director of sales planning for Latin America. By
2005, she received a very long executive title at Royal
Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises — “vice president,
international, Latin America, Caribbean and Asia, sales and
marketing” — and at the same time was pronounced chair of the
Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, a nonprofit
organization that receives millions of dollars in resort taxes
and is tasked with promoting Miami-Dade County as a travel
destination.
It makes
sense: In order to ferry tourists from the Port of Miami to
island destinations elsewhere, she has to make sure Miami is
attracting tourists in the first place. It’s a symbiotic sales
relationship. So, sell away, Maria Sastre. Sell! Sell!
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