Had she been politically active during the Nazi times, Merkel would have landed in a concentration camp.

If the student leaders had really wanted to take over the government, and use violence to do so, this theory would be convincing.

For the sake of argument, even if Musharraf faces impeachment and by some stroke of luck is saved from being thrown out of office, his future will be bleak.

Still, even assuming that the American public would tolerate such a presence, the Iraqi public would not.

Indeed, even if everyone in the world had participated the requisite hour, the result would have been the equivalent of turning off China s carbon emissions for roughly 45 seconds.

If we assume that the number of sites is just the whole area of the solid divided into the cross section of the adsorbate molecules, we can easily calculate the surface area of the adsorbent.

But even when such fears are well founded, reforms should be evaluated on their own merits in broad consultations.

If it were really true that the fundamental existence of our democratic Western world were about to be destroyed by an Islamist revolution, it would only make sense to seek protection in the full force of the US informal empire.

A similar decision today to meet with Assad would simply not be countenanced. One can only imagine the howls of derision that would be directed at President Barack Obama s administration were it to send an envoy to Damascus for such a meeting.

Even assuming China s willingness to help Europe s troubled economies, it would be able to contribute only a modest portion of the huge amount of financing required to restore confidence in European sovereign debt.

Yet, even if Kyoto were fully implemented throughout this century, it would reduce temperatures by an insignificant 0.3 F (0.2oC), at an annual cost of 180 billion.

But this is what politics is all about. The president s physical appearance and his body language if he was a Shakespeare character, he would probably be the traitor Iago in Othello are part of the problem.

Even assuming that this period was justified under German constitutional law, such justification could not change the underlying violation of article 26, which required corrective measures to be taken without undue delay, once discrimination was established.

Assuming that conceptual issues are solved, there remains the major issue of data availability.

The difficulties of living in such circumstances, however, are surely less daunting than the hazards David would have faced had he stayed in the orphanage assuming that he would have survived at all.

Suppose you are concerned about children in Africa dying from preventable diseases.

So is higher productivity the way out? Even assuming that governments could identify and implement structural reforms that yielded quick productivity gains, it is not clear that higher productivity leads to increased competitiveness.

Assuming it was roughly the size of my wife's hand, I made some measurements of her thumb, and I scaled them out to the size of the skull.

Even assuming better forecasts, the projection of 124 could be a gross underestimate.

Suppose my children have to pay off the debt to you that I incurred. They will be worse off.

Today, poorly thought out reforms in North Africa and the Middle East are being rushed through under the perceived threat of Islamist extremism. But even when such fears are well founded, reforms should be evaluated on their own merits in broad consultations.

For the sake of argument, even if Musharraf faces impeachment and by some stroke of luck is saved from being thrown out of office, his future will be bleak. In March 2009, the current ruling coalition will gain more seats in the Senate, and the government would almost certainly try to impeach him again.

Now polls show that men tell twice as many lies as women assuming the women they ask told the truth.

After the Bush presidency, that rule no longer holds, if it ever did.

If we assume that a causal relationship exists, the European directive seems to be fairly well designed, with one main shortcoming.

Even without any portfolio shift, Americans shouldn t expect their recent luck to hold up in the future. If there is a global downturn, any region that is long stocks and short bonds is going to get burned.

And what we do, is we say that the ultimate outcome of a nation is how successful is it at creating happy and healthy lives for its citizens.

If free and fair elections were to be held in any Arab country, Islamists would come to power.

If a proverbial Martian were watching the flow of electrons between East Asia and North America, he would probably notice robust two way traffic.

Assuming he conducted them at all, they very probably did not produce the neat results that he used to assail his opponents.

If it is assumed that three quarters of them attend one meeting each year at an average cost of 5,000 per trip, the added cost would be 424,000.

When we get one, will the rest of us Europe, for example actually respond with sufficient commitment and drive? It would at least be a welcome challenge to be required to put our efforts where our mouths have been.

If you are a woman watching, you feel in your gut that these women won't be window dressing.

Assuming that the Bush administration is serious in its current efforts, the US must have a Plan B in case the talks fail.

If the child data type were different, it would be in a different table, but there would still be a foreign key referencing the EmpNo column of the employees table.

If you were President Richard Nixon, there was no ignoring what appeared on the front page of The New York Times .

At best, Russia is a potential partner in the effort to manage globalization s challenges at worst, it is a potential problem.

Assuming that current trends in resource availability are maintained, significant additional funding of several billion United States dollars will be needed over the period from 2005 to 2007.

Yet, even on the assumption that Putin has no plans to nationalize key natural resource companies, he clearly desires strong state control over these commanding heights of the economy.

A simple model based on prohibition and testing for gene modification will not be enough, assuming that detection is possible at all.

If we assume that health is a condition of a progressive and wealthy society, so the health and economic status of an individual and society are mutually dependent.

It doesn't matter whether you're a yeast it doesn't matter whether you're a mouse doesn't matter whether you're a fly we all have DNA.

Assuming a flat rate of national contributions to the federal budget, Greece, for example, would shed 2 3 precious percentage points from its public deficit.

Maybe, if not there and if not then, dominoes are more relevant to foreign and security policy today.

Assuming that Ahmadinejad seeks re election, this line up lacks any candidate with clear appeal to the youth vote.