But the politicians were satisfied, because the photo-op was all they really wanted anyway.
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It's a photo-op, but an informal swearing-in ceremony, and that's taking place actually this afternoon.
Now of course the G-20 in Seoul is sure to be a glorified photo-op.
"The photo-op was Jiang, " says U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, who led the American team.
It was Obama's weakness that dictated his need to stage a photo-op with Netanyahu and Abbas at the UN.
While the summit has become more of a photo-op, India prefers to deal with the countries in the region bilaterally.
This coexistence will be of the Cold War variety, not the blissful, "final settlement, " Nobel Peace Prize-producing photo-op fantasized by the President.
But here you had the president this morning having with him at the White House a big photo-op outdoors nearly the entire House Republican conference, 200 members.
It arranged a healthy-foods photo-op with Michelle Obama.
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They enable the photo-op at shovel-ready ribbon-cuttings nationwide.
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The idea was to have a photo-op designed to symbolize President Obama's ambition to put U.S. relations with the Kremlin on a new, more positive footing after the bilateral strains of the George W. Bush years.
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Before his recent show, as he hoisted a cup for a photo-op toast with the band and Cowboys players hung out, the singer looked like a preoccupied party host who had left something cooking in the kitchen.
Iran's dictator supremo Ali Khamenei used a photo-op with Mauritania's President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz - who cut his own country's diplomatic ties with Israel last January - to renew his pledge to commit yet another Holocaust.
Officials made no secret of Mr Obama's impatience with last year's summit in Prague, at which he had to endure speeches by 27 European leaders who all then vied for a photo-op with the new American president.
What Clinton and his confreres have left unsettled is just how they intend to fight this war to the finish--and that, more than any photo-op cheeriness, will determine what kind of alliance 21st century NATO will turn out to be.
You gave her the value that allowed her to charge money for a photo-op, because the outlets that bought those photos TMZ and The New York Post being two knew that you would click into those photos or buy that newspaper.
The agile Blair, Clinton's buddy, is now pulling out all the stops to get a pre-election photo op with Bush.
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President Reagan tapped him for a photo op during his re-election campaign swing through Boston (the Gipper took blue state Massachusetts that year).
So Scott, are you just saying that this one day - we're going to say conference with a very little C - is more of a photo op, that all the decisions would have been made beforehand?
You know, really, this little photo op that we just had at the White House--in the Oval Office, as you said, was part of what we're seeing as a pretty intense effort, an organize effort, on the part of the White House today to really reassure people, reassure people that everything that can be done in response to Hurricane Katrina is being done.
Journalists are by nature a skeptical bunch, and all the more so when they've been assigned to cover a photo op. (The hotel had scheduled a dog-serenading opera singer, and puppy weddings.) But sometimes you need to set aside your attitude, not to mention your dreams of becoming the next Walter Cronkite or Edward R.
That's definitely odd, considering how big a bet Motorola seemed to be placing on Blur as its handset differentiator -- and doubly odd since the HTC Hero Eric Schmidt was holding at the same photo op was running Sense on top of Android.
At Walt Disney World, families travel in packs - with younger kids waiting in the wings while older siblings attack rides with death-defying drops, and older siblings dragging their feet as younger kids wait in line for a photo op with Mickey.
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