Mr. Bloomberg's comments prompted criticism from Irish-American leaders, touching off a round of angry statements, clarifications and apologies.
David Warner's half-hearted swing at Joe Root and the endless round of media statements and public apologies later, confirmed the distance between here and there.
For all the uncertainty surrounding the young ruler of North Korea, Mr. Bader said, the latest round of warlike statements from the North recalled the theatrical belligerence shown by Mr. Kim 's father, Kim Jong-il.
Multilateral meetings customarily begin with a round of opening statements from every party in the room, and Zarif and Jubeir, the Iranian and Saudi foreign ministers, laid bare their radically different narratives.
The full band struck into Mr. Konitz's melody "Thingin'," based on the chord changes of "All the Things You Are," structuring it first as a round of solo statements, then as a full-group interplay.
Kicking off a round of celebratory statements that ranged from political and business leaders to the spontaneous expressions of people on the street, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters: "This is really good news, and I hope it brings a cheerful atmosphere to the country.
In what O'Donnell called a "thought experiment," he opened a segment by quoting the latest round of incendiary statements Nugent made against President Obama, pretending the words were his own.
After a morning plagued by delays and issues with the jury, the trial of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán began Tuesday in Brooklyn with an explosive round of opening statements, including allegations from the defense that the current and former presidents of Mexico took "hundreds of millions in bribes" from a Sinaloa cartel leader named Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
