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When beleaguered executives from top newspaper companies met at a Chicago airport hotel in late May, they decided they needed a savior - that is, a tech company to help them figure out ways to make money online. Letters inviting solutions went out to 10 companies, and in July the responses discreetly rolled in. Google's proposal inadvertently showed up online Sept. 9, sparking a sea of media reports about Google's plan to save newspapers...
...representatives from more than 70 states, provinces and countries in attendance at California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's global warming conference were about to convene for panels on the green economy and clean-tech innovation, when the lights suddenly went dark at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. There was a bit of confusion (given California's state budget woes, one had to wonder whether the power bill was past due), but soon enough the attendees shrugged and continued on with the conference. Having fought to put climate change on the global agenda for years - and now representing...
...precisely the moment that Barack Obama plus the leaders of Britain and France were announcing the existence of the secret Iranian nuclear facility near Qum, a group of TIME editors were sitting down to interview Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his New York City hotel. Our strategy was to avoid the obvious questions - Ahmadinejad has been grilled relentlessly about his heinous views on the Holocaust - but there was an obvious question that needed to be asked immediately: What was his reaction to the impending Obama statement? He seemed befuddled. His first response was incomprehensible: "So, is all the information that...
...with his Shi'a allies in the ruling Iraqi National Alliance, everyone expected the wily politician, who has led Iraq since April 2006, to come up with a political bloc of his own. On Thursday, Maliki took the stage in the ballroom of Baghdad's upper-crusty Al-Rasheed hotel, before a crowd of more than 500 guests - including American, European and Asian diplomants - and, one by one, 55 leaders of his new "State of Law" coalition came up to join him. It appeared to be a veritable national unity slate, composed of Sunnis who turned on al-Qaeda, independent...
...Rasheed Hotel, one haunting figure wandered in from the streets to wag a finger at the politicians and power-brokers. "Maybe God will direct them in the right way," says Naima Daoud Salman, 80, dressed in a dusty black Abaya from head to toe. Salman showed up because she heard powerful people would be here. Frail, with one bad eye and the other made of glass, she and seven other women traversed the Al-Rasheed's marble hallways looking for government assistance. They had been evicted from a squatters den three months ago, after being kicked out of their homes...