"The Killers were fairly unknown at that time, but we became friends when we were staying in London at the Columbia, which is sort of a rock 'n roll hotel, three beds to a room, " he said.

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At a gathering of 300 executives last month at a Hilton Hotel in East Brunswick, N.

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The Rainbow Hotel, where U.N. personnel once lived, was a burned out shell.

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But when he got back to his hotel in Westchester County, N.

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Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mokdad met representatives of the U.N. mission staying at the hotel and said later that they were unscathed in the blast, and expressed his government's pride that not a single member of the U.N. mission has been harmed since the start of their mandate in late April.

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Another rocket-propelled grenade whistled past the hotel and other rockets exploded near the U.N. compound, the Iraqi Interior Ministry and an abandoned police station.

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On February 12, 2006, the London Sunday Times reported that Denis Sassou-Nguesso, the President of Congo-Brazzaville, another former French colony in central Africa, had spent more than three hundred thousand dollars on hotel rooms during a visit to New York for a U.N.

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