In most countries, such charges would seem like paranoid delusions.

Tel Aviv, who voted Livni and Left of her, should finally be able to stand up to Jerusalem, who voted Netanyahu and Right of him. This election may sound a wake up call to the moderates, and Livni is their tested leader.

Those days now seem like another age.

Waving to the onlookers, she looked like Snow White.

When times are good, rising leverage can make underlying problems seem to disappear.

It makes a two dimensional image look more three dimensional.

Some of the new policies seem exemplary.

Today, his writing is seen as buttressing the state, not individual freedom.

Once a conflict is over, aid agencies seem paralyzed.

In that case, however, the Boston bombings appear to present a paradox.

The atoms appear as a glowing sphere about 1 millimeter in diameter.

And yet China seems to turn a blind eye to it all.

Thus, external forces do not appear to pose much of a threat.

Belarus seems beyond redemption, but appearances are deceptive.

To Pope Benedict, as well as other conservatives, the social and sexual revolutions of the mid 20th century may look like an orgy of libertinism.

True, such measures might come across as patronizing but such forms of public engagement are the only way to avoid making anti extremism look like extremism itself.

And, while domestic problems may seem intractable, distance increases the confusion and fatigue induced by seemingly intractable international problems.

It is a fact of nature human nature, at least that prudent and appropriate policies now will later seem excessive.

Unlike Europe, beset by a sovereign debt crisis, and the United States, whose leaders are wrangling over how to stem the deficit, Russia may look like an oasis of stability and continuity.

So what if Ariana doesn't look like a pure blooded Japanese? Her mom's Japanese, born and raised in Japan, and she said her daughter's acclimated to Japanese culture.

This is just the outline of it, and you can see, does it look like a regular building? No.

Indeed, China now looks like it can play the role of growth anchor.

Such rescues, in short, appear to help big companies with bad managers.

Resources are too few. The UN itself appears too divided to make the vital difference.

In an environment as deadly as this, the details and symbolism of a possible settlement are bound to loom very large.

The fact that it's a child's toy that we all recognize, but also it looks like it's a robot, and it comes from a sci fi genus.

Lagarde, by contrast, seems to be a global Renaissance woman, but her views on Turkey s EU membership could disprove that image.

What is more, the human rights instruments never appear as a bloc or a coherent whole, but rather as random items on a shopping list .

Or this fangtooth. The particles in the water make it look like it's floating in outer space.

When the watchers have only commercial motives, such spam feels like a minor violation.

But, seen from today s perspective, Kennedy s presidency seems like a high point of American prestige.

When it comes to Pakistan, too, India seems to lack confidence.

Democracies such as India may seem at times to move too slowly and be prone to paralysis.

Now it looks more like a country heading towards authoritarianism at home and embracing adventurism abroad.

So NATO expansion has left the Cold War unfinished.

When the sun is visible in the polar sky, it appears to move in a horizontal circle above the horizon.

This changed the appearance of the fortress, making it appear more of a fortified house than a fortress.

And the impact on Asia and the global economy of a fiscal crisis in Japan would make Greece s troubles look like a walk in the park.

It is easier for the US to deal with Europe as a whole, especially when some European answers to common social dilemmas look as if they might provide solutions for America as well.

So you'll notice that many of the symbols look like pictures of humans, of insects, of fishes, of birds.

France, by contrast, does not appear to have noticed the writing on the wall.

The bad news is that Asia seems to be learning little from repeated external demand shocks.

If it stays put, the next crisis will make this one look like a walk in the park.

This is why banks suddenly look so unexpectedly profitable.

By contrast, today s official Russian ideology seems to be focused squarely on the past.