We can only hope that talk of settlements has done its part to get analysts and bankers back on the straight and narrow.
Talks of a settlement have changed in tone, though, because Andersen's greatest impediment to survival is now the criminal charge.
Rather, the real point may have been to influence the course of peace talks, about which there continues to be much chatter and rumour, if little of real substance.Simon Gass, NATO's ambassador in Kabul, points out that violence is likely only to increase as talks of a settlement are in the air, and as groups "try to maximise their leverage".
Following the massacre, there was an international outcry that resulted in initiation of talks for settlement between the French government, the Kanaks and the French settlers.
In Ramallah, it's not so different, but there the talk is of settlements.
But mere talk of selling settlement is healthy.
Yukos shares briefly rallied early Tuesday on talk of a settlement.
The themes of the meeting were supposed to be innovation, sustainability and education, but that was overshadowed at the news conference by talk of the settlement construction.
He likened the authors of its incriminating internal e-mails, for instance, to drug traffickers who "never figure out that they shouldn't be saying certain things on the phone".Unsurprisingly, there is now much talk of a settlement.
On Thursday night, Pakistan's chief executive, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, told newspaper editors that India is insincere "as it is not talking of the settlement of the Kashmir issue; rather it wants to end tension".
