10 YEARS AGO TODAY
Three stories from this day ten years ago.
World leaders gathered, agreed that the issue was extremely important, and produced a statement using the traditional quantity of careful verbs.
Progress followed, unevenly. The statement remained available as a PDF, which is one kind of permanence.
A public argument became unavoidable for several days, despite having almost no relevance to basic civic life.
Everyone moved on. The internet, to its credit, immediately found a new emergency.
Investors reacted dramatically to a development that many people had spent weeks saying was likely.
The markets recovered, dipped, recovered again, and continued being a very expensive mood ring.