Zuma senses the urgency of the situation.

Ahmedinejad feels the power that comes with re writing history.

In America, one can feel the backlash mounting.

The international community should also be concerned with the coup s regional implications.

As a result, the Fed responds aggressively when it perceives even a limited risk of another depression.

Nonetheless, as many Japanese rightly sense, Abenomics can only help the country s recovery.

Ms. Popescu said that the report was rich in information, but that it gave no sense of a holistic approach to rights.

And yet one senses among elites from emerging countries something akin to existential doubt, which the European crisis has served to reinforce.

Now that the problem has been articulated, one can sense not only general agreement, but almost palpable relief.

When he did not feel the need to exploit the solemnity of Holocaust remembrance ceremonies, Barak conveyed the right message to the rising Iranian power.

This is the policy Italians pursued for decades in the pre euro days, and the Fed might one day feel that it should adopt such a stance.

The gap between the respective qualities of China s economic and scientific elites, on the one hand, and its ruling political elites, on the other, is simply too monumental and still growing for stability to be taken for granted.

But you can see, even just intuit, from this map, that the harbor has dredged and flattened, and went from a rich, three dimensional mosaic to flat muck in really a matter of years.

One troubling aspect of this change is that the new leader may feel the need to resort to brute force more frequently in order to suppress popular resistance.

Ahmedinejad can sense an international community divided, and like his fellow pariah leader, North Korea s Kim Jong il, he is exploiting that division at every opportunity.

Perhaps German central bankers sense a longer term shift in international preferences away from the dollar and want to be ready in some fashion.

There is not a single business anywhere in the world that has not felt China s impact, either as a low cost supplier, or more threateningly, as a formidable competitor.

But, though the sanctions clearly are starting to bite, it will be some time before the bulk of the Russian public actually feels their impact. So the West needs to wait.

Yet, as time passes, one senses the emergence of something like a new French self definition, which is probably the most clearly Western in the history of the Fifth Republic.

CAMBRIDGE The United States still faces a dangerous fiscal deficit, but one might not know it from the complacency that dominates budget discussions in Washington.

These comparisons are not neutral, and one may detect in the analogy between China today and nineteenth century Germany an element of that guilty pleasure in others troubles that the Germans call Schadenfreude.

There may not be nostalgia for the Cold War in any of this, but much of that era s mindset can be perceived again in the arguments being knocked about.

So which arguments should political leaders follow when trying to decide the right policy to pursue? The answer depends, in part, on the collectivity to which he or she feels morally obliged.

Through the soap opera, viewers get a sense of how the Chinese dream has begun to center around property ownership rather than education or love, and how this change has been transforming Chinese society, sometimes in startling ways.

NEW DELHI When a foreign minister goes out of his way to assure reporters that there is no tension on his country s borders with a powerful neighbor, the logical tendency is to wonder whether the lady doth protest too much.

China s financial sector is now increasingly feeling the strain of this rapid credit growth, which has led to overcapacity in favored sectors and mounting debt problems for local governments, SOEs, and banks.

Zuma senses the urgency of the situation. He is, after all, 67 years old and likely to serve only a single term in office.

Its economic proposals do not define its character it feels at ease with policies such as those followed by President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva during his first term in Brazil or those implemented by the Socialist Presidents Ricardo Lagos and Michele Bachelet in Chile.

The Chinese government sits atop an astonishing level of foreign reserves greater than 2 trillion. There is not a single business anywhere in the world that has not felt China s impact, either as a low cost supplier, or more threateningly, as a formidable competitor.

The second risk is that, even based on current growth expectations, investors may have gotten ahead of themselves in anticipating monetary policy tightening. The Fed will raise interest rates when it senses that the economy is nearing full capacity and that inflation wage inflation, in particular is accelerating.

A simplified description runs as follows Facing low growth and high unemployment, and with other policymakers stuck on the sideline, a central bank like the US Federal Reserve feels that it has no choice but to adopt a highly accommodating monetary policy.

CAMBRIDGE The United States still faces a dangerous fiscal deficit, but one might not know it from the complacency that dominates budget discussions in Washington. Regarded as an urgent problem until recently, the federal deficit is now being placed on the back burner of American politics.

But of course we have a way to measure that now on a continuous basis, with a sensor that detects blood glucose, and it's important because we could detect hyperglycemia that otherwise wouldn't be known, And you can see the red dots, in this particular patient's case, were finger sticks, which would have missed both ends.