Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi enters the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli, Libya on March 8, 2011. In the waning days of Gadhafi's reign, "Planet Rixos" was the surreal stage for a daily drama pitting edgy journalists against a cadre of regime information managers, some true believers, others just hired hands. (Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times/MCT) (Rick Loomis/MCT)