”Perhaps I could draw your attention back to the matter at hand?”

The room falls silent as I click the slide presentation forward on the screen. Almost as soon as we filed in, Tim had dropped an arm around Augusto’s shoulders and started in on a speech about how this young man would help restore the nation of Paraguay to splendor.

There was a lot of cross talk, with Mick Brady trying to use the weather as a transition to talking about landslides, and ...