And the notables in the capital, Jakarta, do not seem much interested.
Also, with Vice Chairman Christopher (Kip) Forbes among the notables, we saluted others on our Fabulous 50 roster of the top large-capitalization companies in Asia-Pacific.
Over the past year, the campaign was covered in the Western media and garnered the support of notables such as the French and Canadian prime ministers' wives as well as international film stars like Lindsay Lohan, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Robert Redford and Juliette Binoche.
It was that kind of night, really, though it wasn't over for the two notables.
Though the room was packed with notables, Doyne was the only one so far to receive a standing ovation.
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Starbucks and the other local notables looked glum.
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Murali, who has taken 532 Test wickets, is the most experienced of the very few Sri Lankans to have played county cricket, the only other notables being Aravinda de Silva with Kent and Chaminda Vaas who had a short stint with Hampshire this year.
On the third of February, the official day of both saint and city, parish banner bearers flow into the city in folk costume for the centrepiece of the festival, a procession attended by bishops, ambassadors, civic leaders, visiting notables and the people of Dubrovnik.
The participation of these notables is what gives A Plan for Action its bona fides, though one should doubt how much the document actually reflects their ideas.
It enjoys the support of South African notables like retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who just called for the Cape Town Opera to cancel its visit to Israel.
Many notables over the years include Confucius, Jackson Pollack, Dr. Seuss, Houdini, and even the cast of Sesame Street.
He also befriended other Indiana notables like the musician John Mellencamp.
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Other notables, like the AP, Box.net, Pandora and Slacker, have been available for quite some time already.
Among the 84 signatories were such notables as Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders, Zadie Smith and Sam Lipsyte.
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Moreover, a number of the year's deaths caused us to catch our breath, including the tragic passings of such notables as Whitney Houston, Levon Helm and Dick Clark.
Under Mr Bremer's current plan, each of Iraq's 18 provinces would choose a caucus of notables to select representatives to the national assembly.
He is chosen by a federal assembly of roughly 1, 200 notables, half of them from the Bundestag, the federal parliament's lower house, and the rest appointees from the German states.
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Other notables nominated by local people for the honour are toymaker Frank Hornby, trade union activist Bessie Bradock, and shipping magnate and founder of the White Star Line, Henry Ishmay.
The Brooklyn Museum's show is broader in scope, spanning the 18th to the 20th century in the U.S. with works by such notables as William Merritt Chase, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe and Elihu Vedder, along with accomplished artists who are largely unfamiliar, even to specialists.
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When Arianna Huffington bet in 2005 that celebrities and other notables would embrace a platform for speaking their minds on the internet, the idea was so novel it had trouble getting taken seriously at first.
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The council is supposed to convene a gathering of tribal leaders and other notables called a Loya Jirga, which in turn is to choose an interim government.
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On a slightly lesser comedic level, the 50, 000-volume literary center has also recently installed lyrical works in Little Rock and New Orleans and hosted such notables as Anne Carson and Thomax Lux, shown above, reading poetry on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Covering around half of the universe's light spectrum, between infrared and radio waves, the new telescope should be able to detect distant planets, black holes and other intergalactic notables.
Bread and Roses is not without humour, most notably in the scene where the janitors gatecrash a Hollywood party attended by Tim Roth, Benicio Del Toro and a host of other Hollywood notables.
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