) Some in the audience noted that, for Mr. Ackman, the presentation was relatively light on excitement.
At one point, Evans, peering at the audience, noted, "There must be a lawyer or two in the audience?" About thirty hands bashfully went up.
Ian Tattersall, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum, who was in the audience, noted that the science of human origins has moved well beyond the Leakey-Johanson debate.
Toward the end, in the question-and-answer session, a member of the audience noted that Saudi Arabia aimed to be one of the Top 10 countries in the world in technology by 2010 and asked if that was realistic.
A composer in the audience noted afterwards that it was like listening to period performance, because this group will find the precise attack and colour for any niche corner of the contemporary music repertoire.
Whether this is driven by a fear of the unknown, or risk-aversion among senior leaders (a member of the audience noted that no one has ever been fired for maintaining the status quo) I don't quite know, but I'd ban this word from the lexicon given half a chance.
For that, the world outside has opened up; after she concludes her current six-concert United States and Canada tour on Sunday in Chicago, she's off to Israel, where, as a Russian-born Israeli couple in the audience noted with pride, "she's seen more often than here in your country," playing to the memories of a million Soviet emigres.
One member of the audience noted that the dream of an Asian century has been floating around for the last 100 years.
As several people in the audience noted: when we see these same videos on television news or on YouTube, in snippets, we are numbed.
