Word: summiteering
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...Personal debt, however, is exactly the predicament that council members Trisha S. Dasgupta ’03 and Robert M. Gee ’02 currently face. In February, Dasgupta and Gee doled out $600 and $1300, respectively, in order to cover over-budget costs of a Harvard-sponsored summit of the Ivy Council—an umbrella organization for student council members of the Ivy League schools. Dasgupta and Gee operated under the belief that the organization would pay them back immediately. The check has now been in the mail for more than two months, and to date, they...
Boston-area activists took advantage of the warm weather and the ongoing living wage sit-in in Mass. Hall to join an action organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement(PSLM) in solidarity with the ongoing protests to denounce the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) Summit in Quebec this weekend...
...Hold on!" yells Rhonda Stelmach as she guns her four-wheeler up a hill on her 300-acre ranch near Boerne, Texas. Limestone rocks fly as the ATV chews up the steep slope. Ahead of her, a pair of African gemsbok antelope are running. At the summit, she pauses to drink in the view--and the silence--while the gemsboks peer at her from behind a live oak. "It was their hill before, but now we all share," she says, pointing out the sable and red lechwe antelope hiding nearby...
...accounts, George W. Bush was a modest success at the Summit of the Americas, flying low to the ground at his debut international conference with more backslapping than speechifying and reenforcing among his hemispheric peers, if not the leadership role befitting the world's only superpower, then at least his own reputation for plain speech, open ears and good humor...
...Thirty-three of them did that, with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez obstreperously abstaining on the same gotta-check-with-my-congress grounds that everybody else felt free to ignore, and the summit ended not only with an "action plan" - a commitment of $20 billion from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank to strengthen democratic foundations in the Americas and prepare for free trade among nations at widely disparate levels of development - but also with some language right out of Bush's "compassionate conservatism" file: a promise to create a hemisphere in which "no one is left behind...