– There is little focus on education (a point raised in the afternoon plenary as well).
[Although a remarkable 19-year-old American spoke powerfully at the afternoon plenary.] – Some of the bullet points in the action list have a prescriptive feel that is likely alienate important constituencies on a durably diverse planet (including people who are more individualistic and others more deeply communitarian).
The results will be announced at the end of the Tuesday morning Plenary Session (11.00 am); the winners will be honored during the "Delphi Experience" (see Conference Programme).
The assembly's usual Wednesday afternoon plenary session has not been scheduled next week and committee meetings in Cardiff Bay have been cancelled.
The famed primatologist and anthropologist gave a very understated, but powerful, message at an evening plenary session.
If the British barrister fails to turn up at this morning's plenary session of the court to discuss rules of procedure, that will be interpreted as a sign that he will quit.
In the morning, the plenary sessions featured bankers, government leaders, corporate executives, and alternative lenders sharing their carefully scripted messages with a group of about 150 of us who had gathered for the day.
While calls for tax justice at FFD3 grow louder and more disruptive (a group of activists were escorted out of Tuesday morning's plenary by security after unveiling a banner that read "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu"), the rich nations and the OECD announced two parallel tax initiatives: Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB) and the Addis Ababa Tax Initiative.
This morning's plenary speakers -- Zainab Salbi of Women for Women International and Andrea Jung, CEO of Avon -- reinforced the point.
In the afternoon, a plenary meeting was held with the federal, Slovene and Croatian delegations in attendance, while Jović reportedly left dissatisfied with the talks.
Or perhaps it was the hearty laughter that followed when the journalist Michael Pollan, at Thursday night's opening plenary panel, asked: "Why do people like me who use your work end up selling more books than you do?" Tension between popular and scholarly approaches to history can get rancorous, as the recent dust-up over Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" can attest.
