Already, the meeting with the committee member was not as he had somehow visualized it: an open, face-to-face dialogue.

He was also gauging, praising and challenging his subordinates for the usual three hours of face-to-face dialogue, repeatedly invoking "shoe leather" policing as the point of all the sophisticated tracking of crimes.

If there were just two, as in the face-to-face dialogue, then the ethical would preside as the injunction of responsibility for the other.

"The only thing we believe is face-to-face dialogue," he said.

I can think of few activities, in fact, that bring four teenagers into such energetic face-to-face dialogue.

As involved as each side was in its own efforts, there seemed to be little face-to-face dialogue between the two groups.

Chaitanya Ravi Pune, India, Oct. 9, 2006 To the Editor: For years the Bush administration has flatly refused to have a face-to-face dialogue with North Korea.

Indeed, the one-hour meeting, billed as the first face-to-face dialogue among the groups, produced no consensus.

He is Founder and Chairman of Forward Thinking, founded post 9/11 to help promote durable peace agreements and to engage the more extreme parties in face-to-face dialogue.

It means people like myself and my colleagues in the end find it harder to maintain a face-to-face dialogue.