The Global Economy s Inevitable Hard Landing

That is a shame, but it need not be Africa's fate.

Many claimed that the Kremlin was delaying the inevitable but ultimately would not block independence.

The shell of what remains continues to challenge the company s fate, notably in a Houston, Texas courtroom.

China s rulers may have stalled democratic trends for now, but the current strategy has, perhaps, merely delayed the inevitable.

South Korea and Japan need to have their views taken into serious account if this now inevitable withdrawal is to succeed.

Yet as Battle of Baghdad begins, factors beyond Bush s control and not of his making (at least not intentionally) may just save Iraq from its doom.

We have to invest in transformations capability, moving from crisis into innovation and the ability to rise after a crisis, and of course to adapt to unavoidable change.

Such a strategic reconsideration is probably most necessary for those in the Bush administration (and a few elsewhere), who until recently have been prophets of imminent danger.

It is possible to see in Chavez but another Latin American populist sorcerer's apprentice, one whose political shelf life will expire whenever oil prices begin their inevitable shift backward.

Our countries should not be condemned to stagger from one crisis to the next. By emphasizing the need to combat the alarming levels of poverty and abject poverty, humankind's collective conscience will emerge in favour of development and progress.

For all the denial of climate change by government leaders, the CIA and the navies of Norway and the U.S. and Canada, whatever are busily thinking about how they will secure their territory in this inevitability from their point of view.

So it may be premature for the Party to celebrate the success of its adaptive strategy. China s rulers may have stalled democratic trends for now, but the current strategy has, perhaps, merely delayed the inevitable.

Nothing but the thinnest membrane of denial separates the notion of scientific immortality through priority of discovery from this deeper, older, and wholly non scientific dream of escaping one s own inevitable death.

It is not the innocent victims of repression who are losing their dignity, but rather the international community, whose failure to act means watching helplessly as the victims are consigned to their fate.

Much now depends on whether the same is true of the other major outcome, which is that Yukos s principal asset Yuganskneftegaz is now in state hands, while its remaining units appear doomed to nationalization.

The arrest of 17 people in Canada on terrorist charges underscores, across the West, a growing sense of dread and inevitability that is rooted in the homegrown nature of the threat.

Most commentators appear to think that Bush s latest prescription a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq.