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About Those $16 Muffins…

  Three years ago it was the AIG Effect. Today it’s called Muffingate. Literally today — with a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice’s inspector general decrying “wasteful or extravagant spending” at DOJ conferences, splashed on the front … Continue reading

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Update: Love Parade

The organizers of the 2010 Love Parade music festival, where 21 people were killed and hundreds more were injured in a human stampede last month, have created a website that seeks to analyze and explain how the catastrophe happened: “Just … Continue reading

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The Love Parade: A Cautionary Tale

Meeting planning doesn’t seem like a dangerous job, but it’s easy to forget that you never quite know what’s going to happen when you bring together a large group of people. In Duisburg, Germany, investigators are still trying to figure … Continue reading

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Event Management 101: The Oscars

>Cheryl Cecchetto, who for the last 21 years has produced the Governors Ball that follows the Academy Awards, has an approach to managing guests that will be familiar to any meeting professional who has faced crowds of hungry, thirsty, seat-sprung … Continue reading

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Turismo Chile: Earthquake Update 2

Turismo Chile has issued another update on the state of its tourism infrastructure after Saturday’s massive earthquake. (Read yesterday’s update here.) SANTIAGO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTS DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT OPERATIONS GRADUALLY RESUMING March 2, 2010 – Following the magnitude 8.8 … Continue reading

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