Tweaking the law's clearly not good enough, and tort reform, which is a great idea, lowers your cost if you're a businessperson, but it's like a Band Aid on this gaping wound of distrust.

Tahrir looks like a war zone

Tom looks like a typical American tourist.

Economic stagnation has come to appear endless.

In Plato's Dialogues, learning appears as a process of remembering.

And judging from this, it looks a little like a cheeseburger.

The bishop, then, does not strike one as an attractive man.

As he said, he felt like a man waking from a long sleep.

In the world circus, the poet looks like a Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance, and Augustus the Fool appears ill equipped for everyday life.

Except for the weather, the highway has the feel of Switzerland.

Indeed, the Arab world as a whole seems to have given up on Bashir.

Deliberately manipulating the earth s climate seems like something from science fiction.

Viewed against this foil, the West with Stoker's Britain at its pinnacle emerged as the seat of universal reason.

At first sight, the regime appears to be almost intact.

What he says feels right to his followers, because it conforms to their prejudices.

On the surface, it looks like a choice in favor of a rapidly rising civilization.

But he rarely seems to act on the basis of raw sentiment or instinctive prejudice.

In the absence of hope, the country seems to be falling into a collective depression.

Khamenei s backing of the June 2009 putsch now appears to be a costly mistake.

Indeed, Putinism now seems like a trite parody of all of them.

So far, however, he seems inclined to make one of those systems resemble the other.

To many, this looks like a one way bet.

Indeed, ignorance seems to be a source of strength for the candidates still in the race.

In retrospect, that day looks like a fork in the road of human history.

The situation seems to continue as it is and our government doesn t want to intervene to stop this tragedy.

Obama? He sounds as if he's so wonderful that he'll be all things to all men and all women. You look at him and wonder, can he really make it?

But this seems like collateral damage from the pursuit of an overriding political objective.

Thanks to Poland, what only days before had seemed impossible was, suddenly, possible.

Plans to meet the crisis, in country after country, have been revamped and restructured time and again.

The newspaper noted that Wolfowitz sounded like a character out of the mafia television show The Sopranos .

Indeed, it is at times like this that the world truly does seem like a global village.

On one hand, he appears to be an educated and dynamic leader committed to modernizing Russia.

Singapore s People s Action Party (PAP) remains dominant, though that appears to be changing.

These are the key ingredients in the nationalist stew that seems to appeal to Russians nowadays.

As the name suggests, the head resembles that of a small fox because of the small ears and large eyes.

Outside the stadiums, public screenings of the games have become joyous mass happenings.

Some of Russian President Vladimir Putin s statements seem to recall the Soviet era with nostalgia.

But appeasement of China for commercial gain apparently is not considered morally repellent.

This would seem like the height of cynicism, which of course it is.

What might look like a small step for mankind is certainly a giant leap for Europe.

A tall handsome person enters a room, draws attention, and looks like a leader.

NEW YORK The United Nations today leads what seems at times like a double life.

This may sound like a technical report on Sudan s environment, but it is much more.

Indeed, recent growth in Africa appears to have been fueled by increases in oil exports and high oil prices.

Unfortunately, this makes the new IMF sound too much like the old one.