One was about a Serbian Bishop blessing thousands of believers in a square outside of a Church in Belgrade following Mass on Easter Sunday. This article had a picture showing the bishop in all his regalia. The other article had a picture of Sec'y of State Albright looking up in the air with a puzzled look on her face and with her hand rubbing her chin. The layout man at the newspaper had arranged things so that Ms Albright was looking directly at the Orthodox Bishop. Tony Blair and Bill Clinton are lawyers who are steeped in the adversary system of law.
American history is an interesting teacher.
In the late 1850's Congress had voted that Kansas would enter the union as a slave state and Nebraska would enter as a free state, abolitionists in Massachusetts wanted both states to be free states so they paid New Englanders to move to Kansas and agitate against southern settlers who were moving into Kansas from Missouri. Probably the greatest change is the change in America. In Lincoln' s day Americans were steeped in the Protestant ethos and the stories of the Revolutionary period. They loved their religions, their regions, their traditions, their states, and their nation. They might not agree with the other party's views, but they respected the other party's commitment.