On Addressing Hunger in the Hemisphere

W's hunger, I mean. This coverage The Americas Summit in the IHT is pretty nice, if you're in the mood to feel a little depressed about your President:

Not least, the always-on-time, early-rising Bush found himself so much at the mercy of Argentina's late, leisurely scheduling that on Friday he sat down to a dinner with Western Hemisphere leaders at 10:15 p.m., already past his bedtime, and was not back at his hotel room until nearly 12:40 a.m.

The next day, an administration official said Bush would skip a two-hour Saturday lunch with the leaders because of "time served" at dinner the night before. But the president's planned escape was soon moot because the contentious summit talks ran so late, some three hours over schedule at that point, that Argentina simply canceled the lunch.

So by 3:30 p.m., evidently on an empty stomach, Bush said he was sticking to his plans - his itinerary called for a 4:05 p.m. Air Force One departure from Argentina to Brazil - and he did,leaving an assistant secretary of state behind to sweat out the trade talks. They ended hours later in failure.