"They really sought to bring together public intellectuals and academics around issues of common interest.
"I saw the potential power of that technology to connect people around issues of common interest," he said.
Kerry's meetings with the new leadership will test Washington's willingness to work with Pakistan, rather than around them, on "issues of common interest".
"BP regularly engages on issues of common interest with the European commission and governments and policy-makers around the world," a BP spokesman said.
The White House welcomed Mr. Hu's visit as proof that its policy of engaging with China on strategic issues of common interest had paid off.
Robert B. Zoellick, the deputy secretary of state, is on his way to Beijing, where he will begin a regular discussion with Chinese officials on the many issues of common interest and concern.
ANYTHING CONFERENCE, ORGANIZED BY CYNTHIA DAVIDSON AT THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION, NEW YORK -- The last in a series of annual events, inaugurated in 1990, which brought together architects, philosophers, artists, sociologists and others to discuss issues of common interest.
But if NATO moves from consensus decisions to super-majority decisions in its governing structure, as has been considered, it would be possible to include Russia's vote as an effective way of resolving European security issues of common interest.
The press's publications include several multivolume series, among them Classics of Western Spirituality, comprising works by Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Islamic writers; Stimulus Books, which examines issues of common interest to Christians and Jews; and Responses to 101 Questions, whose titles explore topics like Hinduism, Confucianism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Eastern Orthodoxy and evolution.
