Word: summiteering
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However limited its accomplishments, last month's Earth Summit in Rio signified the participants' acceptance of what Maurice Strong, the main impresario of the event, called "the transcending sovereignty of nature": since the by-products of industrial civilization cross borders, so must the authority to deal with them...
...Russia, the cheering for foreign successes died away years ago, so President Boris Yeltsin found no laurels to rest upon when he returned from his first summit in Washington. With scarcely enough time to repack his bags, he headed south in search of solutions for the endless ethnic conflicts that are generating bloody battles and deep concern about civil war in several former Soviet republics...
...even that one-liner -- the spiraling ramp, soaring atrium and glass dome -- has been reinvigorated, allowed to have its punch line. For years the top section of the ramp was partitioned off and turned into a large closet. Now visitors can go all the way to the grand summit, and curators have been given back the best, roomiest gallery space in Wright's building...
Rudenstine occasionally holds office hours for students who want to go straight to the top with their problems. He has also been willing to get involved in College crises, even to the point of convening a summit on racial issues with undergraduates this spring...
...political needs or principles are compatible. Sometimes, as at the Rio summit, one has to be compromised for the sake of the other. But it appears that whichever Bush chooses, attention is focused only on the compromise, not on the principle he was trying to defend. Even if the kind of leadership we want is nothing but "leading the people where they want to go," we make this impossible by wanting, on principle, to go in the opposite direction whenever someone tries to lead...