I'm following it very closely, not just because I participated, but because I think it's a massive question for our culture.
I know it keeps growing and over 2,200 teams participated just this year.
"He participated just like all the other terrific board members," Mr. Armstrong said of Mr. Malone during a news briefing yesterday.
Far fewer said they had actually participated: Just 4percentt said they had donated money, and a mere 3percentt said they had dumped ice water on their heads.
Since the questions focused on their opinions and experiences as professionals and not on their personal lives, the sensitivity of the topic was reduced and both women and men participated just as much in the discussions.
"If a good script comes along, why should I refuse to participate just because it is a telenovela?" asked Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1999 for her role in "Central Station" and is usually cast as an elegant upper-class matron when she works in novelas.
I participated in just such a retreat recently in the North Carolina mountains north of Asheville.
At this month's civil society forum (in which I participated), held just before the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings, representatives of grass-roots movements complained that the United States and other major powers still doggedly refuse to negotiate their lifestyles.
The type of bipartisan dialogue I participated in just a few years ago is unheard of today.
For example, Participant 1 who experienced 23 migraines a month explained her reason for wishing to participate: "Just to sort of try and see if there were other avenues, obviously I tried so many medications and they weren't working, so I wanted to try something different, to see if it would help.
