As six major world powers convene next week to negotiate on the nuclear issue with Iran's new leadership, the Israeli leader risks seeming frozen in the past amid a shifting geopolitical landscape.
Meanwhile, in Beijing, the Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee, the country's highest power, convened a meeting and issued a directive for officials to step up efforts to control public opinion about the disaster response.
Diplomats from Iran, the United States, and five other world powers have convened in Vienna to work out an agreement on Iran's nuclear program.
The event, called "Breaking Through Power," was convened by the Center for the Study of Responsive Law, a nonprofit founded by Ralph Nader, who has strong views on fund managers' voting.
To mark the 50th birthday of the Cobra, a potent concoction of horsepower and star power was convened last Saturday under the name the Ford Cobra Shelby Reunion at the Wally Parks N.H.R.A. Motorsports Museum in Pomona, Calif.
And over the weekend, the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of global power players, convened a panel on the question, "Is Zero Possible?" The panelists, who included former defense officials from Russia, India and Germany, as well as Senator John Kerry, answered unanimously in the affirmative.
But so far the White House has shown little interest in negotiating with Senator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, over legislation that would define the president's powers in convening military tribunals for foreign-born terrorists -- or any other legislation that may limit his freedom to act.
As the war continued, Britain used its formal position as the colonial power to convene a peace conference in London in late 1979.
Governors generally had the power to convene and dismiss the legislature as well as to appoint judges and justices of the peace.
