Word: summiteering
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...praise famous men. Fifty years ago this week, a New Zealander and a Nepalese became the first people to stand on the top of the world: the summit of Mount Everest. In modern times, we're not always lucky in our heroes, perhaps because, having elevated skepticism to a virtue, we don't allow ourselves to be. But by all accounts, Edmund Hillary, who is still alive, and Tenzing Norgay, who died in 1986, were the real deal. Hillary was a beekeeper; Tenzing, in effect, a professional climber from the Sherpa community in the Himalayan foothills. The two men, wrote...
...doubt if anyone on the team thought he was doing anything more significant than climbing a mountain. Those men kept things in perspective. One of my single favorite sentences in all literature is Hunt's description of the return to camp of Hillary and Tenzing after reaching the summit. "The next moment I was with them: handshakes - even, I blush to say, hugs - for the triumphant pair." Between that "I blush to say, hugs" and our own age of overemoting, lip-chewing Presidents and Prime Ministers, of nations weeping at the death of a princess or a Kennedy, of private...
...Mahmoud Abbas will meet with President Bush is the same reason the two are suddenly talking about implementing a sequence of steps designed to achieve an as-yet undefined Palestinian statehood within two years: both men know better than to cross the White House. Still, President Bush's summit with the prime ministers of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, scheduled to be held next week in Jordan, is a calculated gamble. It is designed to revive of a peace process, and realize the pledge made by President Bush to Arab and European allies ahead of the Iraq invasion that...
...much as the administration may be hoping that next week's summit provides the spur that gets Israelis and Palestinians to work on resolving their problems bilaterally, every indication thus far is that every inch of progress along the "roadmap" will require considerable prodding from Washington. And making himself indispensable to a long-shot Middle East peace process on the eve of a U.S. presidential election season may carry considerable political and diplomatic risk for the White House...
Some gossip out of an earlier summit in Nassau was that Kennedy told Macmillan he had to have sex once a day or he would get a headache. This story has been largely discounted, but now it has new currency. The friends and admirers of Kennedy are disappointed once again. The steady procession of scandal is nibbling away at his credibility as a leader. The excess, the recklessness of his actions stuns almost everyone. Old gossip gets new legs, like the story of the ravishing Indian journalist spotted by Kennedy in the Rose Garden and promptly invited to dinner...