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

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

Tahrir looks like a war zone

Tom looks like a typical American tourist.

To many, this looks like a one way bet.

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

Economic stagnation has come to appear endless.

This may seem like a pipedream, but something along these lines has already been happening for a while.

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

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

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

This might look like a tactical choice, but I doubt that it will result in a stronger hand for the IMF.

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

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

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

For those who have had a couple of lessons in the Quantity Theory of Money, this seems a plausible conclusion.

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.

This would appear to nullify the very purpose of the arrangement, which is to free Asia from the IMF.

This may sound like a worst case scenario, but in my view it is the most likely one woe unto our children and our parents.

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.

Unfortunately, so far the world seems to have learned very little from the recent financial crisis.

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.

When international finance economists sketch this scenario, domestically oriented macroeconomists respond that it sounds like a case of incompetent monetary policy. Why should the Federal Reserve allow long term interest rates to spike just because other central banks have ceased their dollar purchase programs?

Meanwhile, Japan s economy seems to be recovering from a generation of malaise, with this year s annualized growth rate exceeding 3 .

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.

One argument is that redundancy looks like waste in normal times, with cost benefit calculations ruling out higher investment.

What this means is simpler than it sounds the rising value of collateral tends to be seen as offering higher repayment probabilities.

Sadly, this is where the Palestinian Israeli tragedy remains stuck to this very day, thus making the conflict practically insoluble.

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.

This may seem like good news, but it is not, because there is a strong correlation between economic growth and carbon emissions.

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.