Word: summiteering
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...historically rancorous relations between North Korea and Japan. North Korea's Stalinist regime had consistently denied that it had anything to do with a series of disappearances in Japan two decades ago. No longer. In a stunning about-face, North Korean President Kim Jong Il confessed at a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi last week in Pyongyang that his country's spies had indeed abducted 13 Japanese citizens from 1977 to 1983. He blamed the kidnappings on special-forces agents "carried away by a reckless quest for glory," apologized for their actions and assured Koizumi that they...
...said the United States has failed to live up to the financial commitments it made to sustainable development, poverty eradication and global health at this summer’s U.N. Earth Summit in Johannesburg...
...seems like love. The obsessiveness about it, the ascendancy that it reaches over your mind, over all other thoughts. Indeed, it reaches a summit over the world itself that seems to turn reality into a vague abstraction. It stares down as if Zeus on top of Olympus, looking with pity upon the swarming miserable creatures who can never understand its true power. It fills you up and up with “thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls...
...turquoise Lake of the Virgins and the deepest of the three craters. A goat track of a path wound around its lip. Hundreds of meters down, spread like the icing on some toxic cupcake, lay the green lake, marbled with veins of sulfurous yellow. A weatherworn signpost near the summit proclaimed that the lakes were black, white and red. "That was back in the 1970s," said Dagama, my guide. "They've changed colors many times since then...
BOTTOM LINES "I don't think the summit has gone backward. But it hasn't really gone forward either." Mark Moody-Stuart , chairman of Business Action for Sustainable Development, on the Johannesburg summit...