On the contrary, it is in such circumstances that calm foresight is most necessary.

It is not a mark of a superpower s quiet, self confident authority to beat up Buddhist monks and attack their spiritual leader.

But nasty politics is nothing new to the US its founding era was hardly an idyll of dispassionate deliberation.

China is clearly pleased to see that the United States is now also placing cool calculation of its national interests at the forefront of its foreign policy.

The extension of human morality is a wonderful development for humanity, but it would be even better if it were tempered by cold blooded rationality.

He consulted the best advisory team in the nation, weighed each course of action carefully, and then issued a series of precise, calm statements.

India not only livened up a game that was originally invented in staid and decorous Victorian England it also brought the game into the twenty first century, complete with rampant commercialization.

If so, they should start thinking differently. Russia cannot afford more economic pain and suffering.

BERLIN The world s task in addressing North Korea s saber rattling is made no easier by the fact that it confronts an impoverished and effectively defeated country. On the contrary, it is in such circumstances that calm foresight is most necessary.

That way lies not accommodation with the devil, but recognition that the current situation is unsustainable inflammatory confrontation is closer than we think and catastrophe can be averted only by cool, level headed diplomacy of the kind that, until now, has been in unhappily short supply.