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José Ignacio Torreblanca, a senior research fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), said such a scenario would effectively split the E.U. in two. "The question is whether Ireland can oblige other Europeans to reject a treaty which they do indeed desire," he said. "So what is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irish Rebuff Sends Europe Reeling | 6/13/2008 | See Source »

Both Aloft and NYLO hope to attract locals to the lobbies and thus appeal to the new traveler's desire to experience regional flavor while moving around the country. NYLO not only has design features that play up the locality, like cowhide rugs and glass chandeliers in the shape of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Generation Y Hotel | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

In a business in which everyone is basically offering the same thing--a bed for the night for a price--who might win the new hotel consumer? Jan Freitag, an analyst at Smith Travel Research, says what customers still care about most is location. In that sense, Marriott and Hilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Generation Y Hotel | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

Yet instead of caricaturing diplomacy by invoking the Munich Agreement as code for spinelessness, it is worth studying Chamberlain's failed effort in the Munich talks for lessons in how not to negotiate. He was unprepared, unsophisticated and ultimately unsuccessful in preventing World War II. Having never before boarded an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engage your Enemies | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

Chamberlain also violated Part I of President Kennedy's golden rule: "We should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate." Terrified by intelligence reports that exaggerated the reach of the German Luftwaffe, Chamberlain agreed to hand over 3 million Sudeten Germans, even though doing so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engage your Enemies | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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