The group had convened, along with a senior EU representative, at the request of the US secretary of state, John Kerry, who failed to win Israeli or Hamas backing for a week-long truce on Friday.
"It gets earlier and earlier every year," said Hans Ulrich Obrist, a director of the Serpentine Gallery in London, taking count of the art tribe he had convened, along with Cecilia Dean of Visionaire magazine, for this Art Basel curtain-raiser, a dinner underwritten by a sports brand to promote, of all things, a gym bag.
Under the IHI model, clinical teams from healthcare institutions are convened, along with topical experts, to address a pressing quality improvement issue.
But then Bush came along and "convened the Annapolis Conference, the first major peace conference in 16 years and the only one of its kind on United States soil".
"We gave an analysis of the economic situations of our hospitals, with respect to Sept. 11," said Dennis Rivera, president of the union, who convened the meeting along with Kenneth E. Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association.
In addition, during Secretary Clinton's tenure, the State Department ingeniously launched the first ever Global Diaspora Forum under the Global Partnership Initiative as a way to "Convene Diasporas along with partners to innovatively solve problems" added Kris Balderston.
This October, "shock and kill" was widely discussed when the Collaboratory teams convened at the N.I.H., along with hundreds of other researchers, assorted academics, and interested laypeople.
And they certainly don't mind when at noon about 80 U.G.A. members and assorted tag-alongs convene in a loud and disorderly manner beneath the Ben Franklin statue in Washington Square Park.
On October 12th defence ministers from the ten members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), along with America, Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, Russia and South Korea convened in Hanoi.Not much has yet come out of the meeting.
At Tuesday's hastily convened press call, Weiner dragged along his inexplicably loyal and, frankly, too-complicit wife to vouch for him in a display so wretched and manipulative it was difficult even to watch.
It was boho in the burbs: Poets, sculptors, painters and dancers convened in 10 large salons, along with a seven-toed cat named Chinko, who had his own calico entourage.
