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...effort to try to iron out the partners' differences, the leaders of all three parties will meet for dinner on Jan. 17 to discuss a host of issues: tax cuts, health care reform, Afghanistan - and the future direction of the government. Merkel is sure to be hoping that a consensus can be reached without the talks devolving into a food fight. (See pictures of the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall...
...member of the CSU, is reportedly open to the idea of contributing more troops. "The FDP is the problem child of Chancellor Merkel's new government," author Gerd Langguth, who has written a biography of Merkel, tells TIME. "Merkel isn't an ideologue; she's a pragmatist and a consensus builder. Her challenge is to find a compromise between the coalition parties...
...Peter Robinson has said he will continue to negotiate with Sinn Fein during his six-week break. But a failure to reach a consensus could cause the fragile coalition to fall apart, which would trigger new elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. And this may not be good for the DUP. The party's traditional base - rural Evangelical Protestants - has been rocked by Iris Robinson's affair, which may cause some voters to drift toward the anti-power-sharing Traditional Unionist Voice Party or the more moderate Ulster Unionist Party, which recently forged an alliance with the British Conservative Party...
Whatever wiped them out, though, a consensus has been growing for years that it wasn't because the Neanderthals were short on raw intelligence. Their brains were as big as ours, and we've known for a century that they buried their dead just as we do; they also made stone tools, and theirs have been found in association with painted shells and other baubles. But maybe there was a subtler difference in our brains. Some paleoanthropologists have said that when our ancestors made jewelry, for example, it implied the ability to think symbolically - that the adornment represented individuality...
...have been a steady leader,” Maher said in an interview. He added that he believes the mayor is responsible for leading the Council to agreement, and that he has “a reputation as a consensus builder...