Word: summiteer
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...debates. Last week he flew into Houston, capital of the American oil business, to announce his own conservation-focused national energy plan, something that's become virtually mandatory for anyone running for President in 2008. This week he and former President Bill Clinton co-host an international climate change summit in New York...
...follow a group of musicians on a parade route--a fitting start for a founder of New Orleans' modern-jazz scene. A versatile clarinetist-composer for greats from Ray Charles to Cannonball Adderley, Batiste drew national attention in the '80s as a member of the innovative band Clarinet Summit. The bebop master died of an apparent heart attack hours before he was to perform alongside Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick...
...will attend the June summit of the Group of Eight major industrialized countries - the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and Russia - hosted by Germany, which has made climate change a top priority on the agenda...
...Brundtland said she and the other special envoys - former South Korean Foreign Minister Han Seung-soo and former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos - will be consulting ahead of the G-8 summit with leaders from the main emitters of greenhouse gases, from the major developing world economies, and from small island nations and the poorest countries...
...anger and panic over how Washington has bungled Iraq have been surfacing for the last two months. In March King Abdallah hosted Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who in normal times is a man whose head Abdallah would prefer to lop off than talk to. Two weeks later, at an Arab summit, King Abdallah called the American presence in Iraq an "illegal occupation," the same description the Iranians use. In April, King Abdallah reportedly cancelled a visit to Washington and a dinner with Bush out of sheer anger over Iraq...