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Such debates will be especially animated in South America’s three main footballing countries – Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay – whose people view success on the field as signifying more than just sporting prowess.
The Challenge of Russia’s DeclineCAMBRIDGE – As Europe debates whether to maintain its sanctions regime against Russia, the Kremlin’s policy of aggression toward Ukraine continues unabated.
In fact, debates about the use of religious terms lend credibility to fundamentalist efforts to apply these ideas to conditions in the modern world.
Such debates concede that these religious concepts are generally valid, even when, as in the fundamentalists’ case, they simply do not apply.
The result of the debates of the early 1990’s was a set of rough and ready rules on deficits and debt levels that was never taken quite seriously.
Embracing the New Age of AutomationLONDON – Ever since early-nineteenth-century textile workers destroyed the mechanical looms that threatened their livelihoods, debates over automation have conjured gloom-and-doom scenarios about the future of work.
Future-of-work debates often overlook the question of how the labor market will evolve and either improve or exacerbate the skills mismatch that is already acute in developed countries.
In Israel, has the realization of a new strategic threat made debates about land and settlements seem obsolete?
That has been a highly controversial proposition in the West, where debates about education are highly politicized and often fall within familiar ideological boundaries.
Failure to engage in critical debates about Latin American democracy will surely provide fertile ground for reviving the authoritarian fantasies of the past.
Candor on Cancer ScreeningBOSTON – One of today’s most contentious medical debates centers on cancer screening, the benefits of which seem anything but debatable.
The NHS has long been a source of inspiration in health-care debates around the world.
But a high standard of fidelity to the truth is needed in the media; otherwise, debates become too distorted for citizens to evaluate correctly their meaning.
What I did not expect was the speed and scale of the reaction – almost a million readers within a week and far too many written responses and TV, radio, and blog debates for me to follow – and its global scope.
Second, Americans, not surprisingly, have much to learn from other countries’ debates, laws, and cultural norms.
But another key aspect of the Yeltsin era - its rollicking debates - has fallen silent.
That is the question the European Union needs to ask itself as it debates whether to resume providing financial aid to the Palestinian Authority.
Only very recently, as a result of the Greek government’s intense negotiations with its creditors, did Europe’s citizens realize that the world’s largest economy, the eurozone, is run by a body that lacks written rules of procedure, debates crucial matters “confidentially” (and without minutes being taken), and is not obliged to answer to any elected body, not even the European Parliament.
In Washington, many Democrats will use these policy debates to capitalize on popular fury at Wall Street, while many Republicans look for an opening to capitalize on hoped-for public anger at the Democrats.
Our research examining US tax debates over the last 200 years suggests another reason: People can agree that taxation should be fair, but disagree fundamentally about the definition of “fair.”
Such a step would bring to non-Muslims some of the sharpest thinking in the Islamic world, and would contribute a missing voice to debates about global values.
Cash-strapped European countries, however, are unlikely to agree, so guaranteeing inflamed ratification debates in Europe, too.
While visible expressions of Islam have long been a source of controversy in France – owing to the country’s political and colonial history, conception of national identity, and cultural and legal secularism – similar debates are also playing out in Germany, the Netherlands, and other European countries.
And yet the actual story of Pandora is far more apropos to debates about AI and machine learning than many realize.
Africa’s Stake in the Climate-Change DebateMAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE – Across Africa, there are growing concerns, which the three of us share, that the continent is being marginalized in the major debates leading up to the COP15 climate-change summit in Copenhagen this month.
At the height of the crisis, debates raged over fiscal, political, and banking union; but, as the distressed countries’ bond yields have fallen, reforms have become increasingly unambitious.
This controversy keeps left-wing intellectuals, pundits, and politicians busy on television talk shows and in café debates across Europe.
For example, in all of the debates on the EU’s constitutional treaty, neither its supporters nor its opponents have so much as mentioned the Lisbon Strategy.
For China, North Korea is not so much a foreign-policy problem as a multifaceted set of issues that impinge on China’s own internal debates as it charts its future course.
At some point, many countries are likely to find themselves embroiled in similar debates and controversies over reproductive rights and obligations.
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