At the end of his powerful, off the cuff remarks about climate change yesterday, Al Gore insisted that it was time to look people unblinkingly in the eye and tell the truth.

Today's first Poverty Alleviation session was "Emerging from Crisis and Investing in the Future," focusing on post-conflict economic reconstruction.

The Opening Plenary began in earnest as Clinton introduced his panelists. They included not only the announced guests (Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines; H.

This morning after I scrambled to get to the opening plenary on time and squeezed myself into an already full table, I noticed the sign on the table highlighting the pre-plenary topic of discussion more