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Common ground was a scarce commodity at Thursday's all-day health care summit in Washington. "Let's talk about some areas where we disagree and see if we can bridge those gaps," President Obama had implored at the outset. But by the end of the session more than seven hours later, it was clearer than ever that the two parties have fundamentally - and irreconcilably - different views of how to go about fixing the nation's health care system...
...about this. So the question that I'm going to ask myself and I ask of all of you is, Is there enough serious effort that in a month's time or a few weeks' time or six weeks' time, we could actually resolve something?" Obama said as the session drew to a close. "And if we can't, then I think we've got to go ahead and make some decisions, and then that's what elections are for. We have honest disagreements about - about the vision for the country, and we'll go ahead and test those...
...bureaucrats who met, India's Nirupama Rao and Pakistan's Salman Bashir, had no fixed agenda for their discussion and, as expected, did not issue any joint statements or decide when to hold the next round of talks. At a press conference after the close of the three-hour session, Rao said only that they would "remain in touch" and kept open the possibility that their two Prime Ministers would meet at a South Asian regional summit in Bhutan in April. The date set for the next Secretary-level talks will be an important signal. A date within the next...
...Foster of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Timothy A. Burgard of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Each participant presented a separate statement, delving into a particular aspect of the afternoon’s themes before briefly convening as a panel for a question-and-answer session...
...Tuesday, February 16th the documentary was screened in the TSAI Auditorium of the CGIS South building as part of Harvard’s Brazilian Film Series. It was followed by a question and answer session with the directors. In the audience there were many Brazilians and Japanese, including Mika Iga, Vice Consul in the Consulate General of Japan in Boston...