Action: Expose a selected group of senior executives who have a track record in caring about talent development and who are open to new forms of innovation to the topic through organizing briefing breakfasts or peer groups.
"He effectively dodged the question and turned to the military presence in the room and asked them to organize a briefing for ambassadors," said one of the Western diplomats.
A more likely approach would have the court organize a briefing schedule enabling it to hear the case when it returns in October and, with luck, decide it by the end of the year.
E-mail messages between company officials, cited Thursday in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, show efforts to organize a briefing for Mr. Hurd last January, when the leak investigation entered an intense phase over a news account of a senior management meeting.
Last month, he said, the ADL partnered with the agency to organize a briefing for hundreds of representatives from the Jewish community regarding security matters. .
Late Friday, First Look Media, which was founded by Mr. Omidyar, said that in keeping with its mission to protect the First Amendment, it would be helping to organize supporting briefs for Gawker's appeal.
Qureshi explained the MFA had organized the briefing "considering the media hype and some irresponsible journalism on the Indian side".
*The Discovery Institute, a research institute in Seattle that promotes conservative causes, organized a briefing on intelligent design last year on Capitol Hill for prominent members of Congress.
Tailoring the pitch, the White House and Republican Congressional leaders organized another briefing just for Republican staff members to hear from Stephen Hadley, a former national security adviser to Mr. Bush, and Eric S. Edelman, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.
An intelligence official who organized the briefing, held at the New Executive Office Building, where Mr. Negroponte has temporary headquarters, said that "the government prefers that if someone is speaking for the government, and not as an individual, that he be identified only as an official".
