And really, it's not the most user friendly interface.

We are just one organization.

The major sources and uses of power in the world today are softer, although not weaker.

But modernization à la carte is an illusion.

Indeed, the idea of a nuclear renaissance is a myth.

Junk public bonds are no safer for them than junk private bonds.

The most expensive programs aren t necessarily the most successful.

The currency wars themselves are merely a skirmish.

The quest for global governance is a fool s errand.

The new treaty is not simpler or more transparent than the rejected Constitution, quite the contrary.

Technologies are tools. When the tool fails, it needs to be replaced.

But trying to obtain stability from rigidity is illusory.

But the opposition factions have not been adhering to democratic principles, either.

The present currency war is but another sign of that disorder.

Not our colors black and red. I like the white red white variation better.

The North Caucasus is one of the most ethnically diverse regions of Russia, and Dagestan is no exception.

This is an opportunity. Not just this, but connected to the ideas that are here, to bring more coherence to them.

The safety improvements seen in the past 12 months can only be a start.

Stress tests have turned out to be an exercise between futility and fiasco.

All of these lists, however, are merely the pastimes of policy wonks.

Notably, the exceptional risk element contained in the Convention had not been defined.

They claim that other, more sophisticated, interrogation techniques are not only more humane (and legal), but also more effective.

Indeed, official censorship is only the tip of an iceberg of cultural censorship.

But the notion that the genii of democratization can now be squeezed back into the bottle is a self serving fantasy.

DellaVedova s comment suggested that the review process was merely political theatre.

But why do we accept that? Banknotes are just pieces of paper with a number attached to them.

There's my perspective. Because in reality, the problem isn't how to make the world more technological.

Talk of human rights and democracy is nothing but a smoke screen for demonizing China.

The expenses scandal is a symptom of a society in which money has replaced honor.

But, on closer inspection, things are not so simple.

To them the world was made in six days evolution is a fanciful tale.

Indeed, China is no more interested in the continent s natural resources than are firms from any developed country.

Mexico s bad health is a symptom of problems that run deeper and are more widespread than swine flu.

The charge of colonialism, meanwhile, is simply reflex colonialism no longer exists.

Given this structural weakness, the idea of a new Cold War is misleading.

Autocracies, which are much praised for their decisiveness, and for guaranteeing law and order, are paper tigers.

The idea that structural and labor market reforms can deliver quick growth is nothing but a mirage.

It's kind of horsey type, but the texture the second plane not quite hitting there was something more enticing, if that's the right it's not the right word but in this cover than Time or Newsweek.

Despite today s problems, the eurozone is not only richer, but also economically sounder, than most other countries and regions.

Health officials in North America mostly missed the teachable moment. Instead of these lessons, many people learned (or mislearned) that pandemics are paper tigers, and that health officials are fear mongers.

The current crisis in Gaza is only one aspect of the much wider battle shaking the region.

The fact that the Geithner Plan is likely to be profitable for the US government is, however, a sideshow.

I considered the imminent humanitarian disaster that the intervention was ostensibly aimed at preventing, to be largely an invention.

Without this conviction the letter of the law is nothing but a mask for bureaucratic caprice and authoritarian will.

But beef, it turns out, represents just the tip of the iceberg of grievances against President Lee.