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A staple newspaper feature is the academic convention piece, which features elbow-patched and distracted professors virtually unaware that they've plopped down into a big hotel in a big city because they're so terminally immersed in their profession, such as it is.
Watts was chosen to give the State of the Union response in 1997 for the same reason that he had a prominent role at the Republican National Convention in the previous year: The man gives a damn good speech.
Having just returned from a week in San Diego at an FAA convention, I feel less than enthusiastic about these plans.
Demonstrators at a McDonald's, five blocks from the convention hall where the World Trade Organization meeting was scheduled, denounced bioengineered food.
Convention Centre.