It’s past midnight in Zamboanga and Benigno Aquino III slouches in his chair, a glass of Coke in one hand and a cigarette in another. He’s tired and bleary-eyed and wracked by a cold
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The Anatomy of the GE-Honeywell Disaster
On the evening of Wednesday, June 13, Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, retreated to his room at the Conrad Hilton hotel in Brussels and wrestled with an unfamiliar feeling — one of impending defeat. Just eight months before, he had, it seemed, pulled off a stunning coup.
Charlie Sheen and ‘Apocalypse Now’: A Lasting Obsession
Martin Sheen says he understands the recent hell his son Charlie has been going through, because he’s been there. As he told the U.K.’s Telegraph March 21, he’s experienced his own “psychotic episodes,” including some in public
India’s Muslims in Crisis
The disembodied voice was chilling in its rage.
Jane’s Heir
Mia Wasikowska slips through the lobby of New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel, hat pulled low, scarf wrapped high, face scrubbed clean, a marvel of unadornment. If you hadn’t spent the previous evening at a screening of her new film, Jane Eyre, absorbed in her performance as the original plain Jane, you’d hardly notice her.
Forget Christmas: Ski Easter
When you think about skiing over the holidays, the holiday that comes to mind is Christmas. But Christmas at major ski resorts, while festive enough, also means peak prices for hotel rooms and condos, long lift lines, and the same crowd trying to get overpriced lunches at the mountaintop lodges at the same time
Don Cheadle’s poker playing has benefits
“Hotel Rwanda” star Don Cheadle got a first-hand view of horror when he traveled to the devastated Darfur region of Sudan in 2005.
Rod Stewart: ‘I’ve been one lucky guy’
When Rod Stewart walks into the bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, he’s greeted by an enormous blow-up of his face on the cover of his new CD, “Soulbook.”
Real first wives’ club dishes on ex-husbands
It’s doubtful there’s ever a perfect time or place to end a marriage, but for Dean McDermott, that time and place was in a Palm Springs, California, hotel room after playing a round of golf.
Their children in Iran, 3 U.S. moms swing into action
Laura Fattal rolls a piece of Scotch tape, attaching a picture of her son and his two friends to a cardboard box. Her calm demeanor doesn’t give away the gravity of the situation and the reason why she’s in a New York hotel room with two other mothers