Many of those interviewed professed excitement about the congress, which has been the subject of a massive propaganda buildup over the last 70 days, but no one had the faintest idea what would happen at the gathering, who exactly was attending, or even how long it would last.
Since the New York Times first reported the meeting on July 8, a geyser of evolving statements and dubious explanations have emerged about the meeting, provided by Trump Jr. and others in the president's orbit, as well as more reporting about exactly who attended the session ― details that have often contradicted the Trump team.
As the man who controls both the Fox News Channel and The Journal, he doesn't exactly have to attend a precinct caucus to exercise political influence.
Ms. Tang, who went to high school in Shanghai, didn't exactly choose to attend Delaware, a public institution of about 21,000 students that admits about half its applicants — and counts Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. among prominent graduates.
There will be numerous public engagements to attend (exactly what kind will be clearer once she has outlined the causes and charities she plans to support), and you can expect a royal tour abroad with her new husband in the first year or two.
But leaving authors to simply chat amongst themselves does them a disservice, as many of those who make the effort to attend are exactly the sort of highly-motivated, entrepreneurial authors that the industry needs.
My students would no longer attend UC Riverside exactly; the 10-campus University of California would no longer exist.
An event, it turns out, they didn't exactly have permission to attend.
But of course, that is exactly what we must attend in order to heal ourselves, not abandon ourselves.
NEW YORK — With a chatty boss like President Trump, message discipline has not exactly been scrupulously attended within his administration.
