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Atlanta conventions booked up; will visitors turn up?
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 5 days ago
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After a disappointing 2009, Atlanta will have one of its biggest years ever in 2010 with 19 citywide conventions on the books. Citywides — meetings that generally require so many rooms that hotels are booked from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport...
Tags: Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Meeting and convention planner, Business Finance, Atlanta metropolitan area, Convention
Enshrining children's rights | Jasmine Whitbread
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility Enshrining children's rights Why does a bill to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into UK law stand little chance of being passed? All political parties say they want to improve life for children in this country. Conservatives...
Tags: children, rights, convention, 20 years, British, uk law, United Kingdom, London, Eglantyne Jebb, Ageism, UNICEF, Children's rights movement, Children's rights, Save the Children, Convention on the Rights of the Child
20 Year Anniv. For The CRC and The U.S. Still Hasn't Ratified It
It’s been twenty years since the UN adopted the CRC (Convention for the Rights of the Children). The treaty was designed during the Reagan administration. The U.S. was essential in the development of the treaty. And now twenty years later U.S. and...
Tags: CRC, convention, children, rights, 20 years, UN. conservative, abortion, soldiers, education, congress
House opens floor debates for con-con
Manila :: Philippines | 7 days ago
Credibility Charter change at the House of Representatives is not dead as the chamber opened on Wednesday night debates on the proposal to call for a constitutional convention that would amend the 1987 Constitution. The chamber's initial adoption of House Concurrent...
Tags: House of Representatives, constitution convention, Philippines, Manila, Constitution of the Philippines, United States House of Representatives, Constitutional convention, Politics of the Philippines, Philippines charter change, Convention, Social Issues, Politics, Political history, United States Constitution, Mar Roxas, Constitutional law
The 2:30 am to 10:00 pm experience
The International Center for Communication Studies (ICCS) organized the 1st International Convention for Media Communication last August 08, 2009, at the UP Diliman Film Institute. And to tell you, it was an experience. CLANG! CLANG! My cellphone...
Tags: feature, experience, convention
No police misconduct found in arrest of DNC protesters
Denver :: CO :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility An investigation into the arrest of nearly 100 protesters on the first night of the Democratic National Convention revealed no "provable" police misconduct, the city's Office of the Independent Monitor said today. The American Civil Liberties Union filed...
Tags: convention, arrest, national, rnc
Rebuilding the Republican party?
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility It was as if they had one colossal brain fart, and forgot how massively they had screwed things up...In fact, Sen. McCain was a poor choice for a Libertarian such as myself. Like most of the country, I'm irate about the state of the economy, and as a...
Tags: republican, mccain, John McCain, government, president, convention, john, picks, poor, obama
Hispanic conservatives to conduct post-mortem
Martinez :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The group, which has no formal name, is made up of young Hispanics and older party leaders who have worked in the White House and for the Bush and McCain presidential campaigns. Members include former Bush aide Rudy Fernandez; former vice chairman of...
Tags: republican, president, democrat, elect, convention, nomination, vote, voters, obama, barack
Baptists hit snag; feuding surfaces
Greensboro :: NC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility No one wanted another “fighting Baptists” headline, and during the early days of this year’s annual convention, the state’s largest denomination steered clear of controversy. The 2008 Baptist State Convention of North Carolina this week celebrated sending...
Tags: convention
The end of the satirical industrial complex?
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility As proved by the nervous giggle that slips the lips when we are anxious, the human inclination to laugh is not consciously controlled. "We don't decide to laugh -- it just happens," says Robert Provine , a neuroscientist and psychology professor at the...
Tags: election, laugh, history, change, satire, republican, convention, president, don, obama
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