Still, the leadership comments surprised many Republican lawmakers, who said they had expected to move forward on the plan.
"The market lacks direction, conviction and leadership," commented Alan Ackerman of Fahnestock & Co. "The easy money has been made, the new style of investing is now more selective with investors picking stocks much more carefully".
Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior Palestine Liberation Organization official authorized by the Palestinian leadership to comment on the talks, said Israel's position that it was authorizing new building in areas it intends to keep would "lead to the collapse of the negotiations".
Well, according to one of the two men briefly interviewed, the solution is to put a gun to the head of the Hamas leadership, a comment whose inclusion says more about this over-simplistic documentary than it does about this ostensibly representative Jewish voice.
I asked several people in NIH's leadership to comment on the report's recommendations, and on their chance of being adopted.
As the leadership rarely comments on these kinds of issues, this is the best way to feel the pulse of what is happening within the leadership.
Absent from the GOP leadership's comments is any gratitude to the law enforcement officials, who had the courage and professionalism to treat Radel like any other criminal.
Joseph Ortego, a lawyer for the association's leadership, declined to comment on the e-mail message or any other aspect of Mr. Shaw's suit.
The statement, carried on the official Web site of the North, Uriminzokkiri.com, was the new leadership's first comment on a South Korean policy since it announced on Monday that Mr. Kim had died of a heart attack last Saturday.
PUBG leadership declined to comment on the lawsuit.
