While there has been a lull in the dispute, matters are expected to soon fester again when the administration begins running out of ways to raise money to pay U.S. government obligations.
Like most of his Birmingham chocolate-manufacturing dynasty, Cadbury was a Quaker, part of a spiritual community for whom dogma, dates and disputes matter infinitely less than the inner light of truth and conscience.
For example, Secretary Powell said that control of Jerusalem, among the most deeply disputed matters, must be decided in negotiations between the parties that would take into account "the religious and political concerns that both will bring to the table".
We may ask of any particular rule: does it increase the likelihood that jurors will reach true beliefs about disputed matters of fact?
The legal rules of evidence, in turn, are a prime case of the latter: for these rules structure the epistemic process by which jurors arrive at beliefs about disputed matters of fact at trials.
During this year's redistricting process, the tie-breaking chair of the five-member redistricting commission made it clear throughout the process that he was willing to side with the Republicans on all disputed matters.
However, what Levy calls "this lamentable and unwelcome dispute" does matter – a great deal.
Even in vast mansions family members gather in tight clusters; no dispute, no matter how personal, breaks out without bystanders.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had expressed "strong determination" not to let relations suffer over the dispute "no matter how the situation develops".
As with any dispute, language matters.
