Word: summiteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's why last weekend's NATO summit loomed as such a defining moment. When Clinton invited the 42 members and partners of NATO to Washington for a 50th birthday party, he envisaged a glittering capstone to his diplomatic legacy, grandly positioning the alliance as the bigger, broader 21st century mainstay of pan-European security. Instead he found himself presiding over a council of war. Those who feared that the decision to forgo ground troops from the start is dooming the allied cause set up a clamor for NATO to reconsider. A month after firing off its first cruise missiles...
...modern standards, the hostile summit of Mount Llullaillaco, in the Argentine Andes, is no place for kids. The ancient Inca saw things differently though, and so it was that one day, some 500 years ago, three children ascended the frigid and treacherous upper slopes of the 22,000-ft. peak. The three had spent time at the 17,000-ft. level, taking part in rituals that can only be guessed at. Now, accompanied by a retinue of adults, they moved steadily upward. They would not return. Once at the summit, the children--two girls and a boy, between eight...
Another conference accomplishment was the planning of the Ivy Leaders Summit, an Ivy Council-sponsored leadership conference to be held next year for student leaders from each of the Ivy League schools...
...Harvard delegates to the summit must submit an application to attend the event...
...summit, she said, would focus on qualities such as integrity and responsibility, but also on specific professions such as medicine, law, politics, journalism, entrepreneurship and even professional sports...