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Day two at the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship. Here’s what I wrote for Portfolio.com about one of the themes that came out of the day’s discussion: government v. business. And while poor Lloyd Blankfein slugged it out with Carl “I don’t trust you” Levin, the 250 plus Muslim entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders gathered for the White House gathering in Washington DC conducted themselves with far more civility, and even made some progress on a possible truce between the public and private sector.