The chair, Labour MP Margaret Hodge, found herself interjecting that the scale of the losses was "huge, crazy, huge".

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"The theme is challenged by other aggressive and dissonant ideas that keep interrupting, interjecting, and unsettling it, " she says.

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The president, while insisting the problem is Europe's to solve, is increasingly interjecting himself into European efforts to broker a solution.

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An aide -- often campaign consultant Mike Murphy -- always rides shotgun to McCain for the entire free-wheeling conversation, occasionally interjecting help, "clarifying" comments or gently moving the discussion along.

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