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...York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg acknowledged the obvious at the opening plenary session of Davos-in-New York on Thursday night; the weather stank. Outside the Waldorf-Astoria, demonstrators and cops shivered in a cold, persistent drizzle; inside, delegates sweltered in the over-heating that seems to tempt every hotel manager. As they negotiated the temperature gradient between Park Avenue and the Waldorf's Peacock Alley, you could also almost see, as well as hear, a thousand snuffles. The mood of attendees was not helped, either, by the never ending line for the hand-held gizmo that enables...
...almost two years later, Bush needed no help remembering the general's name. Behind a huge pane of bulletproof glass that Secret Service agents had wheeled in front of the window of the presidential suite at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City, Bush was finally sitting down for his first face-to-face meeting with Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf. "You were in an extraordinarily difficult position," Bush told him, describing his guest's decision to join the anti-Taliban coalition a month before. "And you made the right choice." Musharraf, however, wanted something in return, something that would...
...amazing party at the Waldorf Astoria. Marlo Thomas and everybody at Ms. had organized everything from photos of all 50 years; to Phil Donohue, who toured the table with a microphone for toasts; to Bette Midler, who sang; to an all-woman orchestra. The guests were divided between people who were always at the Waldorf and people who'd never dreamed of going there. Rosa Parks came, Bella Abzug, Dolores Huerta for the farm workers and many movement people...
...passengers stranded at La Guardia Airport asked one another where exactly they were supposed to go and how they were to get there. Bridges, tunnels and ferries to Manhattan were not running. Strangers were offering each other a place to wait in Queens, giving advice on good diners in Astoria. Limousine drivers offered to take passengers to Boston for a price. A vendor dispensed free bottles of water to travelers waiting...
...passengers stranded at La Guardia Airport asked one another where exactly they were supposed to go and how they were to get there. Bridges, tunnels and ferries to Manhattan were not running. Strangers were offering each other a place to wait in Queens, giving advice on good diners in Astoria. Limousine drivers offered to take passengers to Boston for a price. A vendor dispensed free bottles of water to travelers waiting...