The simulation begins at the point where Ellis, Geer, and their attorneys have convened with the mediator, Cheney.
"We have daily Scrabble," said Janet Chan, who with her husband and two children has convened with the same two extended families from Ann Arbor, Mich; Charlottesville, Va.; Washington and Brooklynn at the Basin Harbor Club on Lake Champlain in Vergennes, Vt., for more than a decade.
The trial of leaders of the abortive 1991 coup has been postponed virtually every time it has convened, with one defendant after another claiming illness; no end is in sight.
It is here, among the lunchtime labourers and lorry drivers, their faces buried in the sports pages of the Sun and Star, that I have convened with Bob Stanley, songwriter with celebrated postmodern pop group Saint Etienne and film-maker and one-time band member Paul Kelly to begin a short, guided tour of the area.
The group had convened, along with a senior EU representative, at the request of the US secretary of state, John Kerry, who failed to win Israeli or Hamas backing for a week-long truce on Friday.
"It gets earlier and earlier every year," said Hans Ulrich Obrist, a director of the Serpentine Gallery in London, taking count of the art tribe he had convened, along with Cecilia Dean of Visionaire magazine, for this Art Basel curtain-raiser, a dinner underwritten by a sports brand to promote, of all things, a gym bag.
Ted Kennedy (D-Mass)., he had convened meetings with virtually every health care stakeholder, from hospitals to unions to insurers to patient advocacy groups, exchanging ideas and negotiating over principles.
Schumer had convened a call with Judiciary Committee Democrats over the weekend to coordinate hearing strategy, according to a source familiar with the effort.
On Sunday, Downing Street said May had convened a conference call with Johnson and Rudd, instructing them to speak to their equivalents in the US.
On Sunday and under pressure, Downing Street said that May had convened a conference call with Johnson and Rudd to instruct them to speak to their equivalents in the State Department and Department of Homeland Security.
