Occasionally we are immensely cheered by, say, the humiliation of Member of Parliament obliged to admit that he had asked the state to pay for a floating duck island in his garden.
Representatives of the Obama campaign in Florida are floating a possible compromise that could seat delegates from the Sunshine State at the Democratic National Convention in August.
In the first tier of sanctions, Chinese nationals and state-owned enterprises would be barred from securing U.S. bank loans or floating bond offerings on the U.S. debt market.