But, with the great and the good gathered underneath Christopher Wren's world-famous domed roof, there was no sign of the party girl.
Investors shook off the weak UK economy, as evidenced by disappointing fourth quarter GDP figures, and news that the International Monetary Fund had cut its global growth forecasts as the great and the good gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
NEXT month the great and good gather in New York for the UN's millennium summit, a grand affair that promises monumental tedium.
The World Economic Forum at the Swiss resort of Davos sees the great and the good and the not so good gather to discuss the burning issues of the day, and this year's theme is the fourth industrial revolution.
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939) Renoir's masterpiece is set in a stately pile where the great and good gather for a shoot, and where a fatal incident sets the cap on an incisive portrayal of people - both servants and guests - in all their contradictions.
The site is essentially an aggregated online version of conventional police auctions, which sell goods gathered by seizure, through legal forfeiture or as evidence in criminal cases.
Last month, Tom OKeefe of Hemet, Calif., was browsing Property Room (www.propertyroom.com), which auctions off lost, seized or stolen goods gathered by 30 law enforcement agencies, when he found a white Fernandes bass guitar described as "one HOT instrument!" Curious, he sent e-mail to the site, asking for more details.
There, the silver was used to purchase spices and trade goods gathered from throughout Asia, including (until 1638) goods from Japan.
Recalling this must strengthen our collective hand as resistance to the coalition government's savaging of the public good gathers momentum this autumn.
Since this park has a "carry in-carry home" policy for trash, we carefully packed up our wrappings and, for good measure, gathered refuse left by past picnickers.
Jeff Akins Highland, N.Y., Dec. 22, 2008 To the Editor: Perhaps instead of accommodating the industry's demand that we upgrade to digital TV, many of us will give up in frustration and entertain ourselves the way our World War II-era forebears did — with a good book, gathered around a piano or electronic keyboard, or with some board games.
