About 25 miles to the southwest at Booker T. Washington High School in downtown Dallas, Ron Kirk, the United States trade representative, watched the speech with students.
At the United Nations on Friday, Mohammed Aldouri, Iraq's representative, watched the televised images from a distance as he sat in a chair in the delegates' lounge, fingering his black-and-gold worry beads.
An Intellifit representative watches the user's valuables and logs the user's measurements and e-mail address into the system.
Photo: On the South Lawn of the White House, President Bush signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act yesterday while senators and representatives watched.
We give him a fragment of a smashed-up hard drive, a memento of the Guardian's tangles with GCHQ: a year ago this weekend, senior editors destroyed computers used to store Snowden's documents while GCHQ representatives watched.
Workers closed the underground crypt shortly before 3 a.m. while a handful of Secret Service agents, library employees and mortuary representatives watched, said Duke Blackwood, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
Nothing in Bigelow and Boal's film could capture the terrible effects of rendition and torture on the victims and their families, nor, for that matter, the hypocrisy of western governments that outsourced brutality and whose representatives watched as people were sodomised and electrocuted and cut, while leaders reassured themselves that this was the grown-up world of realpolitik.
Students were to meet their Congressional representatives, watch a debate in Congress, visit Georgetown, Chinatown and memorials, and do the role-playing exercises that are the hallmark of the conferences.
It's not impossible to imagine that there's a mimetic effect at work – that our elected representatives, watching all this cleverness and skulduggery on their screens late at night, were stupid enough to decide that maybe they should try it out themselves.
We waited in line to speak to a representative, and watched a man in front of us throw a fit because his generator hadn't arrived, either.
"I was in Clarksville, Miss., when Emmett Till passed away," said Willie Banks, a sales representative who watched Senator Obama's speech at Bert's Warehouse Theatre, a cavernous restaurant and bar that had to set up tables and a portable video screen in the street to accommodate the overflow crowd.
