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  • Brinker, a GOP fundraiser and former ambassador, got Adrian and Michelle Fenty, French Ambassador Pierre Vimont and Kuwaiti Ambassador Salem Al-Sabah and his wife, Rima, to lend their names (and therefore their clout) for the party.

    Washington's "social season": Too many parties, but not enough "fun" in all those fundraisers The Reliable Source 2010

  • I mention Levitte and Vimont -- not to get them in trouble with the Foreign Minister -- but because they are constructive, geostrategic pragmatists with a sense of opportunity and costs that Kouchner seems to lack.

    Steve Clemons: Kouchner's Lament: Misunderstanding the Net 2010

  • A Jesuit father who knew them well, Barthélemy Vimont, wrote that Nicollet was “delegated to a journey to the people called the Gens de Mer,” the People of the Sea who lived beyond the sweetwater sea.34

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • The Jesuit Vimont said the first Mass, and the Blessed Sacrament remained exposed all day with a phial containing fireflies as a sanctuary lamp.

    Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, a short biography de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • A Jesuit father who knew them well, Barthélemy Vimont, wrote that Nicollet was “delegated to a journey to the people called the Gens de Mer,” the People of the Sea who lived beyond the sweetwater sea.34

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Kossin and Vimont 2007 and Vimont and Kossin 2007 are two recent articles, which associate the Atlantic Meridional Mode with changing hurricane activity.

    Bill Gray and the Atlantic Meridional Mode « Climate Audit 2007

  • Vimont and Kossin [2007; hereafter VK07] showed that the relationship between SST and hurricane activity could be viewed as part of a larger relationship between hurricane activity and a dynamical mode of Atlantic variability referred to here as the Atlantic Meridional Mode AMM, but also known historically as the “gradient”, “interhemispheric”, or “Atlantic Dipole” mode [see the review by Xie and Carton, 2004].

    Bill Gray and the Atlantic Meridional Mode « Climate Audit 2007

  • Kossin and Vimont objectively raised the issue of uncertainty of the intensities outside the North Atlantic, but their published study is not the last word in intensity.

    YTD Hurricane Activity « Climate Audit 2007

  • But Kerry Emanuel, a mellow person, thought that our paper on hurricanes resolved an outstanding problem and Vimont and Kossin wanted to quote it, but the paper received vicious reviews and there seemed to be a conscious effort by the reviewers to make things difficult for me.

    Unthreaded #17 « Climate Audit 2007

  • At the end of his book Mooney points to the somewhat theory deflating results of reanalysis that was done by Kossin and Vimont, who would almost surely be considered in this endeavor to be the stamp collectors, on tropical cyclone frequencies and intensities back to the 1980s.

    Atlantic Hurricane Track Versions « Climate Audit 2007

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