The gathering, billed as "Anthony Haden-Guest's Public Storage Blues," took place at the Hiro Ballroom in the basement of the Maritime Hotel.
The gathering, billed as "cocktails and strategy," was roughly two dozen men and two women in the parlor of an East Side private club.
One afternoon last spring, President Obama sat on a stage at La Cervecería, a high-ceilinged beer hall on Havana Harbor, where he had been invited to preside over a gathering billed as "an entrepreneurship and opportunity event".
In the end, one might expect the UN's largest ever gathering, billed as a crucial follow-on to the Earth Summit, to produce something more illuminating.
Abdul pointed out some of the endemic birds: the Socotra starlings, tiny Socotra sunbirds, with their long nectar-gathering bills, and the imperious Socotra buzzards dancing like kites on the thermals.
Filled with much of Egypt's technical class, which included many women, the gathering was billed as an effort to bolster Arabic Wikipedia.
The gathering was billed as "The New York Art World Votes".
Moreover there could be no better means of pushing the Government into producing a bill of its own than the threat of a private member's bill gathering steam.
The Brescia gathering was initially billed as a rally for the mayor, Adriano Paroli, a People of Liberty member who is facing re-election this month.
