Word: summiteer
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Does George W. Bush have dreams of presiding over a grand Middle East peace deal at Camp David or some other photogenic spot, like the Red Sea summit of his first term? Aides say he is content for now to take steps toward transforming the region in less obvious but, they believe, more fundamental and lasting ways. So Bush today is in the precarious position of putting his hopes in a region that has yielded only heartbreak...
George W. Bush and Tony Blair may look back on last week's G-8 summit with a tinge of embarrassment. Not because the meeting of world leaders failed to solve global poverty or secure peace in the Middle East, but because a private chat between the pair was picked up by an open [an error occurred while processing this directive] mike and broadcast around the world. But the conversation - which saw Bush greet the British PM with a cozy, "Yo, Blair. How are you doin'?" - is just the latest case of politicians being caught on-air and unaware. Here...
...Just going to make it up. I'm not going to talk too damn long like the rest of them." --GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, to British PM Tony Blair before his speech to leaders at last week's G-8 summit in Russia. His remark was caught by a microphone that had inadvertently been left...
...Does George W. Bush have dreams of presiding over a grand Middle East peace deal at Camp David or some other photogenic spot, like the Red Sea summit of his first term? Aides say he is content for now to take steps toward transforming the region in less obvious but, they believe, more fundamental and lasting ways. So Bush today is in the precarious position of putting his hopes in a region that has yielded only heartbreak...
...summit produced little to show for Russia - or for the rest of the world, for that matter. But the spectacle and the attention may have done a lot for Vladimir Putin...