A perfunctory announcement was issued instead by the traveling White House in Rome late Friday.
Its eventual success forced the Observer and the Daily Telegraph to follow suit (the colour supplement was eventually removed from the latter paper and issued instead with its sister publication, the Sunday Telegraph).
An error which offered all neighbourhood networks a 12-month extension of their current funding - only to be told days later the conditions were being withdrawn and a three-month contract issued instead - was "breathtakingly careless and insensitive", they said.
The self-described "libertarian conservative" insisted this was not the case, explaining that while he supports marriage, it "offends" him and others that the institution could be extended to gay and lesbian Americans, citing that "competing contracts" should have been issued instead.
But the meeting of the Group of 7, facing the same divisions over Iraq that have split other international institutions, skirted concrete plans that would deal with the negative economic effects of a war and issued instead a more general statement on how to address a sagging global economy.
She also said a subsequent administrative error which offered all neighbourhood networks a 12-month extension of their current funding - only to be told days later the conditions were being withdrawn and a three-month contract issued instead - was "breathtakingly careless and insensitive".
