This month the 25th anniversary of the high point of the movement the massive nationwide strikes and demonstrations of August 8th, known as "8888"—was marked in the new, open, reformed Myanmar by a high-profile gathering in Yangon, formerly Rangoon, the biggest city.
Indeed, this was a theme explored, with "journaling" and tearful dialogue exercises, throughout the gathering in Tulum, formerly an invitation-only affair organized in part by Mary Richardson Kennedy, the late ex-wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., that this year was open to anyone who Googled it.
The city had also objected to the demonstrators' hoped-for gathering spot — the formerly named Lee Park, where the city has ordered the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The "intelligence-gathering" umbrella was formerly comprised solely of CIA agents, men in crisp, black suits and narrow black ties below their Joe Friday haircuts and garden-variety features.
The remarks came during Romer's keynote address to a gathering at the Bently Reserve, formerly the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to officially launch UC Berkeley's Opportunity Lab.
Even Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the News Corporation, dropped in this year at the gathering, the Cannes Lions festival, formerly just a boozy awards show but one that has become increasingly businesslike.
It's prestigious to be able to say, 'I support this cultural organization.' " Even formerly staid business gatherings have taken on some show-biz razzle-dazzle.
The curator is formerly responsible for data gathering, data digitization, data wrapping in metadata and making it available for sharing.
In the city of about a million, formerly known as Stalingrad, large gatherings for New Year's Eve — the biggest holiday on the Russian calendar — were called off.
William Bratton, the police chief of Los Angeles (and formerly of New York), speaks of a "gathering storm of crime".
