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...event planner for a cost-conscious corporation, and you need to set up a three-day off-site for 100 executives who are based in cities all over the U.S. and are accustomed to four-star accommodations. Where do you book the meeting without breaking the bank? According to GetThere, a Menlo Park, Calif., company that produces automated travel-reservation systems, your best bet is Jacksonville, Fla. (shown at right). Using an online program called DirectMeetings, GetThere ranked 26 U.S. cities, using factors like cost of accommodations and airfares. Jacksonville, where you could hold the described meeting...
...Blix's three-day visit to Baghdad was not an inspection mission but a diplomatic one. Blix, as head of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), and Mohammed El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, held a preliminary meeting with Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri. Then they had two rounds of talks with Saddam's point man, Lt. Gen. Amer Saadi, a British-educated engineer who once headed Iraq's weapons programs...
Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) held a three-day “Invest in Israel” sale last week, offering Israeli candy and “Shalom” T-shirts, as well as shot glasses and beer mugs, to raise funds for Israeli soldiers...
...Despite the legendary psychedelic flavor of those full moon parties and the epochal madness of three-day Goan raves, few globally renowned DJs emerged from the scene as so many did from other party spots like Ibiza or St. Tropez. Koh Phangan never produced a Sasha or Tall Paul, a deck maestro who made his name under the full moons before jetting off to earn $20,000 a night spinning at Cream or Ministry of Sound. Instead, the Asian raves coughed up Tsuyoshi, who first brought Shiva to the Tokyo dance floor a decade ago during his DJ residence...
...mayor ought to remember that when the 15-ton bronze scuplture was toppled and carried off in August 1991—during a three-day coup that heralded the final demise of the Soviet Union—grateful bystanders whistled, cheered and applauded. As Princeton University professor Kathryn Stoner-Weiss observed last month in a Los Angeles Times op-ed, “The fall of Iron Felix was a bold declaration that KGB repression would have no role in Russia’s democratic future...