Word: summiteering
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...state became a spice-trade hub in the 19th century. This month, gourmets are flocking to the island to taste the multicultural results at the 10th annual Singapore Food Festival, a month-long, mango-themed culinary fair (see www.singaporefoodfestival.com.sg). Singapore's food-obsessed can simultaneously enjoy the World Gourmet Summit, where some of the world's top chefs gather to discuss dining trends and to gossip about who's in and out in the cliquish world of foie gras and shark's fin soup (go to worldgourmetsummit.com...
Members of a student group focused on issues of Latin American diplomacy will spend the beginning of their spring break hosting a summit of high school students from throughout South America...
Decorum was shattered at the Arab summit in Doha last week when Izzat Ibrahim, the Iraqi envoy, lashed out at Kuwaiti diplomat Mohammed Sabah al-Salem: "Shut up, you monkey ... Curse be upon your mustache." Those are fighting words in a region where men have been cultivating whiskers since the Ottoman Empire. More than a badge of manhood, the mustache is practically a totem: to seal a deal Iraqis literally swear by them; to compliment a man they say "an eagle could land on his mustache." During the Iraq-Iran war, facial hair was an extension of the military uniform...
...Everybody has missiles. What's the big deal?" NORTH KOREAN OFFICIAL, at the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement...
...slaughtering people in whatever way, whether it is by dropping bombs or crashing planes into buildings." MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, Malaysian Prime Minister, while hosting the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement...