This week, Clinton will take the concept of an activist post-presidency to another level when he convenes up to 1,000 world leaders at a Sheraton Hotel in New York. His aim, in what he grandly calls "the Clinton Global Initiative," is to bring together the best and the brightest in government, nonprofit organizations, science, religion, and business to accomplish a fourfold mission: End extreme poverty around the world, lessen religious conflict, reduce global warming, and promote good government in new democracies. The initiative will revolve around a series of discussion groups, many of them led by Clinton. Among the expected participants are British Prime Minister Tony Blair, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, General Electric Chairman Jeff Immelt, and investor George Soros.
