The two sideline-facing screens are 58 feet long, stretching between the free-throw lines, and offer production videos, live action and replays.
Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, has criticised the British prime minister, David Cameron, a week after a landmark meeting between the two leaders on the sidelines of the UN general assembly.
The announcement of a "bilateral summit" meeting in Russia in September, and of the planned meeting between the two presidents on the sidelines of a Group of 8 meeting in Northern Ireland in mid-June, came as Mr. Obama's national security adviser, Tom Donilon, met in Moscow on Monday with Mr. Putin and other top officials to push for renewed cooperation on security issues.
Watch the N.B.A. sometime on NBC or TNT or TBS; watch how the camera cuts back and forth between the two head coaches pacing the sidelines and the 10 players running up and down the court, as if to imply that the coaches are omnipotent puppeteers and the players their particularly lithe marionettes.
The meeting between the two took place on the sidelines of the 5+1 meeting on Iran's disputed nuclear programme, and the two officials talked privately for 30 minutes in an attempt to put an end to three decades of mistrust and disputes between the two nations.
However, although Hu and Obama are scheduled to have one to one talks in the Oval Office later today, human rights and other concerns, which have made relations between the two nations delicate, will be sidelined for most of the first full day of a four-day state visit.
Mangini then turned in his former employer after the 2007 opener between the two teams, accusing New England of filming the Jets' signals on the sidelines.
At halftime during a game in 1959, Paul Brown questioned the severity of an injury Jim Brown was sidelined for, which further inflamed tensions between the two.
"Ease of Paperless E-Mail Sidelines the Forlorn Fax" (March 13) overlooked a crucial difference between the two systems.
With the Americans on the sidelines for a change, European diplomats have been shuttling between the two sides to try to engineer a meeting between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
