Then, we can consider the work of these Tribunals to have been completed.

Our failure to think clearly about such matters would be amusing if the potential consequences were not so serious.

This cannot be regarded as a success.

Under neither of these interpretations can those who negotiated and signed the Kyoto Treaty be said to have served the world well.

Calling this a Ponzi scheme might be too harsh. But few financial professionals have been fooled.

That could not be taken for granted.

None of this was necessarily wrong.

Think of this as a global version of federalism.

Rwanda s success should be the norm, not the exception.

The problem should not be dismissed as a mere settling of old scores.

And for every art that we do in the street, we consider it a gift to the people.

We see the new constitution as the cornerstone of a rising Iraq.

Nor is it any longer accepted that such actions will be sufficient.

The measures adopted by the US and Europe are a start.

But is greater transparency always good?

By the end of 2012, the crisis could be considered less acute.

Liu He is perhaps the least visible of the key economic thinkers.

Nor is public diplomacy merely a public relations campaign.

There is another important reason why we see partnerships as so vital.

Can Iran under Ahmadinejad be considered a rational actor?

But this need not be a foregone conclusion.

Right now, a genome is akin to a novel written in an unknown language.

In earlier times with no formidable adversaries in the political arena, this was a harmless affectation.

Animals, he maintained, are merely ingenious mechanisms, and we should not take their cries and struggles as a sign of pain, any more than we take the sound of an alarm clock as a sign that it has consciousness.

Why Bipartisanship is Good Politics

Abuse and neglect are not unique to Bulgaria.

There was no given threshold below which debt was innocuous and above which it was dangerous.

In these circumstances, policy inertia is not an option.

We can count ourselves lucky if the emerging chaos can be contained in Iraq.

When that happens and there is a strong probability that it will happen next year the crisis will only just be beginning for Russia.

If the result is substantially positive, we regard the person s life as happy if negative, as unhappy.

Bolivia is not a typical Latin American country by any definition.

China is thus very different from previous US adversaries.

Individual derivatives and repo transactions are hardly nefarious.

So Lebanon cannot be considered electorally competitive.

In any case, journalism is one business in which the customer is not always right.

To this day we consider our membership a cornerstone of our national sovereignty.

It would be a mistake to consider the sixtieth or indeed any other anniversary as a make or break occasion.

Now maybe we want to treat it as metaphorical.

Why More Migration Makes Sense

We consider that to be a vital foundation for our sustainable development.

As a result, the continued openness of industrial country markets cannot be taken for granted.

Are the Swiss more bigoted than other Europeans? Probably not.

But we should not yet consider their example a vindication of The Gospel of Wealth.

Then again, maybe we re lucky that things aren t worse.