Banks exist because they help reconcile the conflicting desires of savers and borrowers.
Mr. Mitchell's visit, put off from last week, followed Mr. Netanyahu's response to American demands of Israel to help reconcile.
"At a time of great upheaval and economic crisis, this will help reconcile the French with their history.
There have been attempts by private groups to help reconcile the Burman and Kachin in recent months, including a "Peace March" across the country of about 100 people.
And he will probably help reconcile the Pentagon's request for billions of extra dollars with fiscal restraints imposed by the White House budget office.
It is not, he argues, the role of politicians to create an ideal society, but rather "to help reconcile different interests in a peaceful way".
A healthy partnership between them could do great good; it could help reconcile Afghanistan's deepest ethnic divide, between ethnic Pushtuns, Mr Ghani's group, and Tajiks, who mostly support Mr Abdullah.But it will be hard.
It is also possible that a Labour-SNP government would help reconcile a few Scots to the union (it would certainly be less offensive to them than another Conservative-led government).
Mr Maliki has made compromises in the past, notably with the Kurds, and his leading critics among the Sunnis and Sadrists have themselves failed to produce alternative legislation that could help reconcile the country's competing groups.
Kotsko's suggestion that the flashbacks in "Mad Men" help reconcile Don Draper to his "psychotic" personality, seems, if anything, more psychotic, and more aloof from narrative reality, than any aspect of the character.
When Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, met with President Bush a year ago, the Yemeni offered to help reconcile America's grievances with Saddam Hussein of Iraq, a longtime ally of Mr. Saleh's.
