Both guests and the press are told to be in their seats long before that for security reasons, so you find yourself leaving the Beverly Hills Hotel in evening clothes at 3 in the California afternoon while more rational folks are heading for the beach.

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If you want to know who will make and who will lose money in the convergence wars now besetting media, entertainment and tech, then I invite you to sign up for: MEET 2006, a FORBES conference to be held Oct. 24 and 25 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

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More than 500 people are expected at a hotel in San Jose, California on Saturday for the convention of the Muslim education and leadership group.

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