Solving the problems of places like Ferguson is less about passing more anti-discrimination laws than about rekindling economic growth and spreading the proceeds.
Speculation of the pair rekindling their romance, started to heat up when photographers spotted them in the Caribbean over Christmas, and again in London in February.
Yet rekindled interest in trade talks does not amount to full-throated support for renewed liberalisation. Whether it leads to real progress may hinge on two changes among the world's leading trade officials.
His trial rekindled memories of a bygone era of Boston history in which mobsters shook down local business owners and killed their rivals in telephone booths before burying their bodies in shallow graves.