Speaker Newt Gingrich had refused to allow official hearings on the issue, even though 61 Democrats had requested them, but the boisterous Representative Charles Schumer, of Brooklyn, staged an unofficial forum anyway.
Welcomed with "great joy" by London's Conservative mayor, Boris Johnson, MIPIM has for all of its 25-year existence been headquartered in Cannes, where every year, a couple of months before the French Riviera city rolls out the red carpet for the glitterati of the film world, it stages an exclusive forum for the major players of the international real estate scene.
Meanwhile, throughout the night, the "occupation" of Saint Louis University campus continued, as students and protesters there set up tents and staged a "teach-in" educational forum.
Apple has long used the MacWorld stage as a forum for introducing new products, typically keeping the announcements a secret until the day of the show.
It is an evening for connoisseurs of fine acting more than for those of us who have long admired Hare's ability to treat the public stage as a forum for national debate.
Mr. Bush shared the stage at a forum at the Church of Rock Creek here with three women chosen in advance, two of them single mothers of three, who said they had succeeded in moving from welfare to work.
Last week at DOE headquarters, Richardson staged a gala "Women in Science" forum to tout the department's progress in the past 2 years and to announce several initiatives to keep the ball rolling.
More recently the Forum, a multi-use arts and community centre, has staged a number of theatre productions and concerts.
Advocates of this approach argue that it would provide a staged forum for vetting possible unintended consequences from recommendations (King, 2007).
University engineering departments around the country have been staging public forums in which the "mechanics of failure" are debated; there's one at Columbia University this week.
