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It would be foolish to drop names; they were as plentiful as the lights burning in the World Trade Center, which presided over the proceedings like titanic parents.
Greene, who fled Nazi Germany with his parents in 1939, helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and presided over the 1981 breakup of AT&T.
He presided over a period of prosperity and positive achievement, rebuilding Beijing, encouraging scholarship, and expanding the empire to its greatest area.
The Meiji emperor presided over the emergence of Japan as a modern nation state, and his shrine is surely the most solemn, decorous place in Tokyo.
And indeed, in the course of the day, he presided at a three-way meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat--their first time in the same room since Friday.