Gbowee was eventually granted a meeting with Liberia's president, Charles Taylor, and pressed for peace.
When he visited Washington in September, he was not granted a meeting with President Bush.
He was only granted a meeting with the Chinese newspaper's deputy editor-in-chief.
This time, the Yazidis were granted a meeting at the Pentagon.
At one point, he sought, and was granted a meeting with M Sarkozy, before he became President.
Zabara told me he refused to give up, and was later granted a meeting with Qusaa's superiors, whom he named: Said al-Shihri and Qassim al-Raymi, the deputy leader and military commander of Al Qaeda's Arabian branch.
Mr. Hotung is a Hong Kong businessman who in 1997 was granted a meeting with Mr. Clinton's national security adviser after Mr. Hotung's wife, Patricia, an American, offered $100,000 to the Democrats.
By contrast, last Saturday's fight was the kind of matchup that the fans of other sports get to take for granted: a meeting of two of the best in the world, on relatively even terms.
Last year, one of many housing activists who have tried to help the holdout tenants, Rosanne Haggerty, was finally granted a meeting with Mr. Yamagata in Tokyo after six years of entreaties.
Governor Maggi was exercised enough by the report — which led to harsh measures stifling business in his state — that he asked for, and was granted, a meeting with the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
