Word: discussants
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Officials from 43 Asian and European nations gathered in Beijing Friday to discuss how to combat the global financial crisis. But even as the talks got underway, the markets were having their say, and it wasn't pretty. From Tokyo to Mumbai, markets plummeted again, a trend that was repeated when European markets opened a few hours later...
...Global leaders share that concern, which is why finding a solution to the crisis is dominating the Asia-Europe Meeting in Beijing, and why international leaders will meet again in Washington on Nov. 15 to discuss how to reform the world's financial system. "We are living in unprecedented times and we need unprecedented levels of global coordination," European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said in Beijing on Thursday. "It's very simple. We swim together or we sink together...
Agenor also said she’d hoped the health care advisors would discuss America’s racial and socioeconomic health disparities. Salganicoff’s opening slides placed an emphasis on the underserved, while the debate did not address similar issues of health and equality, Agenor said...
Like Gilbert, I have found myself in anguish over the fact that my dad and I will vote differently in November. Why does it seem so intolerable? I fear that something cultural--and quite dangerous--is at work. In our public discourse, Americans can't seem to discuss and debate issues with anything approaching respect or intellectual honesty. We oversimplify, we distort, we dismiss. We turn the challengers into enemies. And when that madness infects our private discourse, our family members become foes. Not good for family harmony--and not a very wise way to go about choosing a world...
...with the composers and lyricists of “Legally Blonde: the Musical” to a workshop on Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre with Rodney Cottier, head of the drama school at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Most notably, there will be a panel discussion on “New Directions in Contemporary Theater” with Diane M. Paulus ’88, director of the A.R.T, and Mac Wellman, playwright of “The Hyacinth Macaw.” The panel, which will be held in the Loeb Drama Center...