Word: summiteer
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...that his firm was going to have to spend a lot more time talking to NGOs. The journalist's response: "What's an NGO?" Let's hope he knows now. NGOs--nongovernmental organizations--have won significant influence over global companies. The demonstrations against global capitalism at the G-8 summit in Genoa were the latest manifestation of a trend that--mostly quietly and behind the scenes--is defining our age. From Home Depot (criticized for its use of tropical hardwoods) to Starbucks (attacked for the treatment of workers on coffee plantations), from Big Oil (a perennial target for environmentalists...
...peak fitness and experience using crampons and ropes at high altitudes. That didn't deter Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, 58, the chief executive of Nestle, who has been mountaineering in the Alps since he was a child. He fulfilled a lifelong ambition last summer by reaching the 14,692-ft. summit. "It was just perfect," he says, his eyes sparkling at the memory...
When Spain's King Juan Carlos verbally slapped down bad boy Hugo Chavez at the Ibero-American summit, it came, to say the least, as a surprise. For a man who normally is the very embodiment of decorum, Juan Carlos' retort to the Venezuelan president - "Why don't you shut up?" - seemed shockingly uncharacteristic. But a statement from the Palace on Tuesday may have offered a bit of context on the royal mood: the king's eldest child, the infanta Elena, was separating "temporarily" from her aristocratic husband, Jaime de Marichalar. Could His Majesty - coolheaded impeder of military coups, tireless...
...Venezuela, Chávez's weak political opposition is gleefully playing and replaying video of the summit exchange - especially delighted that the King used the informal, less respectful form of Spanish to address Chávez. They'll no doubt hope to use it to erode support for a raft of controversial constitutional reforms Chávez wants - including the elimination of presidential term limits - before a Dec. 2 referendum. Still, Chávez has come through past diplomatic outrages unscathed - in fact, just weeks after calling U.S. President George W. Bush "the devil" at the United Nations last year...
...rally deaths will complicate the task of Arab moderates, such as Saudi Arabia, who are trying to reunite the two warring Palestinian factions. Hamas opposes Abbas's plans to attend a U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Arab summit in Annapolis, Maryland, later this month. Ahmed Qurie, chief Palestinian negotiator with the Israelis, compared Hamas's reign in Gaza to the Israeli occupation inside the Palestinian territories. "The policy of silencing the other side will not win," he said. Meanwhile, a Hamas spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri blamed Fatah for provoking the latest Gaza shooting. With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem