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...weeks before the deadly bomb blast at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, senior Indonesian police officers delivered a briefing in that city's dilapidated police headquarters. They announced they were certain the city faced an imminent bomb attack by Islamic extremists but also tacitly acknowledged they could do little to prevent it. A militant captured during a raid in the central Java city of Semarang in early July confessed that he had recently delivered two carloads of bombmaking materials to Jakarta. During the raid, police had discovered drawings outlining specific areas of the city for possible attack by members...
...Jakarta paid the price for that helplessness?or perhaps haplessness?in the face of terror on Aug. 5 when a car bomb exploded in the driveway of the Marriott, killing at least 10 and wounding some 150. Within days, police had announced that they had identified a suspected JI member as the bomber. As in the case of the Bali bombings, the swift response has drawn wide praise. But serious questions remain about just how much more police might have done to prevent the attack in the first place. The latest blast is also a grim reminder that...
George Bush could not have picked a better place to demonstrate the reach of his "shock and awe" money campaign. Headlining a luncheon at the Airport Marriott in the liberal Democratic bastion of San Francisco last Friday, the President politely thanked his supporters for their "hard-earned dollars" and walked away $1.6 million richer. But the backroom brigadier of Bush's financial blitz was quietly working the velvet rope at the ballroom's VIP section. Jack Oliver, a little-known 34-year-old from Missouri, is the man largely responsible for what is being heralded as the most formidable money...
...aesthetics aside, the case against reality TV is mainly moral--and there's a point to it. It's hard to defend the deception of Joe Millionaire--which set up 20 women to court construction worker Evan Marriott by telling them he was a multimillionaire--as hilarious as its fool's-gold chase can be. Even the show's Potemkin Croesus contends that producers hid the show's premise from him until the last minute. "The day before I left for France, I signed confidentiality papers which said what the show was about," Marriott tells TIME. "At that point, could...
When hotel giant Marriott International needed a new board member last year, it nominated investment banker George Munoz, 51, an amiable, meticulous Texan who runs a private investment firm in Washington. It isn't hard to see why Munoz got the nod: he went to the right school (Harvard Law, class of '78), he knows the right people (Marriott CEO Bill Marriott is a friend), and he has managed multibillion-dollar portfolios. But Munoz doesn't simply fit the profile of the traditional corporate director: he's an expert on Latin America, where Marriott hopes to expand aggressively...