When Pope John Paul II asked Cardinal Edward Egan of New York to spend October here, helping him run a monthlong gathering of bishops from around the world, the cardinal could hardly object.
This group has now run a series of data gathering challenges based on specific text-mining exercises (8), which were reviewed and evaluated at four public workshops.
With the conference trying to run a normal agenda - despite the gathering crisis - the Lib Dems' president, Lord Dholakia, himself a former refugee from East Africa, used his address to warn that "law-abiding minorities are not made the scapegoats simply because the enemy is invisible".
It draws on claims by senior sources that officials connected to England's bid for the 2018 World Cup ran an intelligence-gathering operation against rival nations.
The "Canada Run" convention, a gathering of Hells Angels and their affiliated clubs, takes place every four years and is an opportunity for the bikers to get out and be seen.
It ran a skilled vote-gathering (or vote-fixing) operation, but the country was run by a political bureaucracy in league with other power centers, such as banks, labor unions, the army, television magnates and industrial moguls.
The book's four authors, stalkers in the best sense, run Lebowski Fest, a gathering whose fans rival those of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" for line memorization and creative attire.
For the past two years a Des Moines bar has run iPod Monday, a gathering where patrons bring in their iPods and share playlists others in attendance.
And for 55 days each summer, she runs a series of cultural gatherings on its deck through PortSide NewYork, a nonprofit group that she founded to make better use of the city's water, or what she calls its "blue space".
With his tattoos and night-owl habits, he has bonded with renegade chefs like Jolene Mannina, who runs a late-night food-truck gathering that draws off-duty cooks into cooking competitions.
