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This story, on the surface, has a simple start and finish. It starts on a grey weekend in mid November 1975 at the Château de Rambouillet outside Paris, France. There the leaders of France, the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan and Italy gathered with a few hundred officials and journalists for an apparently one- time discussion of international finance. The story ends last year, in July 2001, in sun- drenched Genoa, Italy. Here the leaders of these countries, and now Canada, the Euro- pean Union and Russia, were joined by sev- eral other world leaders, thousands of officials, thousands of journalists, and hundreds of thousands of protestors, at their 27th annual summit to deal with the full range of global concerns.
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