Is the G8 Tomorrow's Dinosaur?

Published July 8, 2009

Tomorrow will see this year's G8 Summit, hosted by Italy's President Silvio Berlusconi, begin in L'Aquila, the small historic town shattered by a huge earthquake just a few months ago. He moved the meeting from its planned luxury setting in Sardinia to show empathy with a population still in tents, but maybe it also says something subliminally about the near death situation of the G8 itself.

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