Mr. Lieberman's appearances today extended a highly public fence-mending campaign that he began on Tuesday when he met with the black caucus.
Hence the public fence-sitting: Mr Mubarak is our ally, but we deplore violence and are on the side of "reform", was the official State Department line as the demonstrators thronged Cairo.Mr Obama has also been careful to say, in public at least, that Egypt's future is for Egypt, not America, to decide.
New reinforcements are believed to include security barriers in public areas, fencing and gates around the Senate and House of Representatives entries, fewer pedestrian entry points and extra machine gun-equipped police, Fairfax Media reports.
Now the big one – Hamlet – looms, directed by David Farr in a loosely contemporary setting: a run-down public-school fencing gym, over which hangs a Latin motto: "Sound in body; sound in mind".
The donor, Alexander S. C. Rower, the sculptor's grandson, insisted that it be visible to the public outside the fence, Ms. Harrison said, adding that the combination of private protection and public visibility made Gramercy Park his first choice.
Since the massacre, the site has been closed to the public with a fence surrounding the club perimeter.
The phrase has been spray-painted on public walls and fences across the country and has taken off on social media.
The fact of our quiescence as public spaces are fenced off, bulldozed and bleached of any cultural distinctiveness is one of the most interesting themes in Ground Control; but, sadly, it is underdeveloped.
The series flows from that premise, and what also flows is our sense that there is something wrong with Shawn that is unacknowledged by the show's producers, many of whom also have other works of whimsy and preposterousness on their résumés, such as "Ed," "Boston Public," and "Picket Fences".
He also said he would not be imposing extra taxes to pay for the health service, but promised to do "whatever it takes to save the NHS", remarks that suggest he will either ring-fence public spending for the health service, or find another way of raising extra revenue.
He has also pledged to ring-fence public health budgets, saying in the past that they have been raided during times when money is scarce.
