To paraphrase an old line about Vietnam, sometimes it seems to me that we haven't spent four years discussing the response to economic crisis; we've spent one year discussing the crisis, four times, with the discussion starting up each year as if nobody can remember or learn from what went before, and with constant repetition of the same old errors and fallacies.
The researchers introduced the subject for discussion starting with the introductions, objectives, areas to be discussed and asked the participants to participate freely in the discussions.
Ms. David's 2010 book, "The Family Dinner," includes almost as many discussion starting points as it does recipes, and she now posts regular topics of conversation on The Huffington Post, under the rubric "Table Talk".
In telephone interviews yesterday, each man was asked to reflect on the discussion, starting with a question one sponsor put to them beforehand: Have you felt tempted, or seen others tempted, to think a doctor might possess a near-divine capacity for healing?
The very definition of the concept is under discussion, starting with the importance given to the length of the fallow period and ending with the question of defining it as a system, many systems or a "tool kit".
It's been five years since the Supreme Court's Bedford decision, and only now is the discussion starting to slowly resurface with parliamentarians.
