It is, by any measure, a high-class confab, with this year Sir V.S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux among a host of foreign writers in attendance, and Amartya Sen, Amit Chaudhuri and Arundhati Subramaniam among a greater number of Indian ones.
At a chummy confab at his Texas ranch, Mr Bush appeared to rebuke Israel's prime minister for not stopping settlement-building in the West Bank.
Breaking off from a hurried confab with her, Mr Brazauskas explains that the problem with the last government was not its general policies but the prime minister's personality.
YESTERDAY at the US-Mexico-Canada confab in Guadalajara Barack Obama announced that he is putting immigration reform on the back burner until early 2010.
AT TIMES it is hard to keep up: a flurry of farewells to a visitor who just happens to be Bill Gates; a quick ride to the Senate on Capitol Hill's own subway system; a 10-minute confab with the Senate leader, Trent Lott, in an attempt to save a tobacco bill that will force the cigarette-makers to discourage their own customers and pay the government some $516 billion over the next 25 years.
Mr Wheaton reinvented himself as a paragon of geek culture through his blog, books and the w00tstock geek confab, and brings together friends and fellow performers to play completely through a different board game each episode with edits to keep the pace up.
At a confab for motivational speakers, she is told that anyone can achieve "infinite power" by resonating in tune with the universe.
AFTER a week in Tampa for the Republican National Convention, Gulliver is now in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the Democrats' confab.
The weekend confab with Mr Nazaruddin wasn't the first time that an Indonesian government team was sent to Singapore to locate a high-profile corruption suspect.
It looks like a cluster of trees huddled together in a bit of a confab.
At this year's International CES – the consumer tech industry's annual Las Vegas confab – you can't go more than a few steps without hearing someone talking about a way to connect something new to the internet.
