Every entrée came with a choice of two sides from a list of a dozen choices.
Those differences, they said, should not prevent the two sides from making a deal.
This requires the United States to engage in active mediation between the two sides from a position of genuine neutrality.
Observers say political developments outside the region have shaken the two sides from the inertia of their decade-long stalemate.
Both sides agree that schools are underfunded and teachers underpaid, but that has not prevented trust between the two sides from eroding to a vanishing point.
The Bush Administration still seems unwilling to exert itself to deflect the two sides from their headlong rush toward the abyss.
When the IPL was first planned, a Champions League had also been mooted, with the best two sides from Australia, India, England and South Africa taking part.
Then he addressed Piazza's suggestion that a fight among clubs over revenue sharing had prevented the two sides from reaching a new agreement.
The companies invoked force majeure, a legal term referring to an unforeseen event that prevents the two sides from fulfilling an agreement.
By late December, Davutoglu and his aides say, only disagreement over a word or two prevented the two sides from moving to direct talks.
Kelvin Thomas' deal to take over League Two side from current chairman David Cardoza is in doubt.
