Katha Pollitt deserves praise for her incisive review of Stanley Fish's book "The Trouble With Principle" (Feb. 6).
Kelefa Sanneh lumps "An American Family," the twelve-part 1973 TV series chronicling the Louds, in with contemporary reality shows ("The Reality Principle," May 9th).
In principle, November's agreement paves the way for co-operation on other areas of policy, such as European defence and security, where Lib Dems feel that Mr Blair has anyway stolen some of their best ideas.
Royal Bank of Scotland, which is 70% government-owned, agreed in principle Feb. 26 to an asset-insurance deal that could see the state increase its stake to 95%.
In principle, DEC-salt can be combined with iodine and fluoride; Haiti has conducted a successful pilot project fortifying salt with DEC and iodine.
To evaluate qualitative changes we employed a novel LP/SP reporter system that allows monitoring of initiation events not only at the principle AUG of the gene (AUGGENE) but also at a series of downstream AUG codons (AUGa, AUGb, AUGcand AUGLP: Fig. 4a and Additional file 1: Figure S6A) [ 27, 53, 54].
On that basis, which is not in accord with generally accepted accounting principles, May was expected to earn 11 cents, according to Thomson First Call.
A €3 billion capital increase agreed on in principle in March, which hands both Dongfeng, a Chinese carmaker, and the French state 14% stakes in exchange for €800m apiece, will help PSA secure its future.
House Speaker John Boehner acknowledged this principle in March: "Clearly while the president is overseas," he said, "I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country".
The discussions have been extended until the end of June after the failure of Iran and six world powers to achieve a breakthrough in Vienna, with the aim of reaching an agreement in principle by March.
Baltasar Garzón, Spain's most high-profile judge, invoked the principle in March when he sought to investigate six former Bush administration officials, accusing them of violating the Convention Against Torture by giving legal cover to torture at the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
