Was there anything, any attempt in the last couple weeks to come up with a solution if you made a determination that would not happen by March 1st?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Right now, you have a situation where if you look back at the play(ph) of the year 2000, you had only 10 primaries and caucuses by March 1st.

NPR: Week in Review: Primaries Play Leapfrog

An excellent new English language blog from the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, notes striking differences in the way that the March 1st summit was reported by the British, American, Polish and French press.

ECONOMIST: European politics

Facebook's comment service initially failed to take off, but a new version, launched on March 1st, is already used by more than 17, 000 websites. (This newspaper will soon start testing it for some online discussions.) The results seem encouraging.

ECONOMIST: Digital identities

But on March 1st the Turkish parliament refused, by three votes, to approve the troop deployment.

ECONOMIST: Turkey's promises were always too hard to keep

His inauguration on March 1st ended more than 150 years of government by two of the world's oldest political parties, the Colorados and the National Party.

ECONOMIST: Walking to the centre at home

As investors have shifted their economic outlook from catastrophic to merely grim, the stockmarket has shot higher, by 19% on April 1st from its 12-year low on March 9th.

ECONOMIST: The economy

On March 1st he announced plans to make big French companies harder to take over, by increasing the shareholdings controlled by the state.

ECONOMIST: European takeovers