WEDNESDAY The morning session will be devoted to "severability," the question of what happens to other provisions of the law if the individual mandate is struck down.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, has said that the first months of the new Congressional session will be devoted to the issue of federal spending.
John Dufresne, a novelist, and Mr. Heyen talk on Thursday and Friday, respectively, while Saturday's session will be devoted to "New Voices: June Spence and Susan Choi".
A morning session will be devoted to sharing lessons learned on defense management reforms, followed by a midday meeting on bilateral issues, including such prickly topics as missile defense and a nuclear arms control.
In this program, other media will be brought in "to spark the conversation," Ms. Margulies said, noting, for instance, that one session will be devoted to the connection between painting and poetry.
The session will be devoted to national security and foreign policy, an area where the polls show Obama with a strong lead, but also one where the Republicans think he is vulnerable.
The opening of Parliament to-day will be of exceptional interest, the "Standard" points out, alike because of the presence of the King and Queen after their visit to India and because of the vast importance of the legislation to which it is known that the session will be devoted and of which indications will be given in the speech from the Throne.
For that reason, Italy has invited Iran to take part in the G-8 meeting of foreign ministers that is to be held in Trieste on June 26 and 27 and whose "outreach" session will be devoted to the stabilization of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The afternoon session, from 2 to 5 p.m., will be devoted to North American music, and will be programmed by William Kanengiser, a founder of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
This issue of EPS will be devoted to the session "Cosmic Dust: Its Formation and Evolution" of the AOGS 2010 meeting held in Hyderabad, India.
