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They may be repulsive, but they are not organizing uniformed storm troopers, building concentration camps, or calling for the corporate state.
Finally, Dr. Jiang implored the Party to re-assess the 1989 student movement by "reversing its verdict" from "counter-revolutionary rebellion" or "political storm" to "patriotic acts that had the support of the overwhelming majority of the people in Beijing and the country."
The Palin CharadeNew York – The selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate hit the United States like an electric storm.
A storm will surely come, and when it does, we will be poorly prepared for the deluge.
As a result, one cannot rule out that by late 2010 or 2011, a perfect storm of oil above $100 a barrel, rising government-bond yields, and tax increases (as governments seek to avoid debt-refinancing risks) may lead to a renewed growth slowdown, if not an outright double-dip recession.
But this period turned out to be the proverbial calm before the storm.
In 1914, war really was thought to be inevitable, a fatalistic view reinforced by the Social Darwinist argument that war should be welcomed, because it would “clear the air” like a good summer storm.
Day Traders of CharityLANGKAWI, MALAYSIA – An online charity organization is taking Silicon Valley by storm.
The Economic Imperatives of the Arab SpringWASHINGTON, DC/ISTANBUL – Almost a year has passed since revolution in Tunisia and protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square toppled ossified authoritarian regimes and ignited a much wider – and still raging – storm in the Arab world.
Above all, Britain, it was said, would regain its “mojo,” the creative vitality needed to take the world by storm.
Anastasiades has endured a perfect economic storm during his first month in office, and the current crisis is certain to continue to dominate his agenda.
We could even wish them immortal...”The second reason applies to the hard-working rich, the type of person who“devotes himself forever to the pursuit of wealth and greatness....With the most unrelenting industry he labors night and day....serves those whom he hates, and is obsequious to those whom he despises....[I]n the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and diseases, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments....he begins at last to find that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility....Power and riches....keep off the summer shower, not the winter storm, but leave him always as much, and sometimes more exposed than before, to anxiety, to fear, and to sorrow; to diseases, to danger, and to death...”In short, on the one hand, we don’t wish to disrupt the perfect felicity of the lifestyles of the rich and famous; on the other hand, we don’t wish to add to the burdens of those who have spent their most precious possession – their time and energy – pursuing baubles.
India's Revolutionary RestorationTruly, the day before India's stunning election results were announced was the quiet before the storm.
Indeed, a decade ago, economists failed to see a massive storm on the horizon, until it culminated in the most destructive global financial crisis in nearly 80 years.
The rising atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, would warm the planet and change rainfall and storm patterns and raise sea levels.
Now that these countries are at the center of the storm, perhaps they will now be serious.
But the “perfect storm” of the largest earthquake and tsunami since industrialization, and the resulting meltdown of three reactor cores at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, went beyond any scenario previously envisaged.
Testing the Eurozone’s Safety NetPRINCETON – On October 14, as yet another financial storm gathered over Europe, the European Court of Justice convened in Luxembourg.
Of course, this storm may blow over.
The storm had hardly settled when Obasanjo sacked General Aliyu Gusau, his powerful National Security Adviser.
One time-honored reaction to being caught spying on a foreign government is to batten down the hatches, wait for the storm to pass, and maintain technical operations as usual.
So far, one important difference between today’s right-wing populists, in Europe and the US, and the fascists and Nazis of the 1930s, has been the absence of storm troopers.
Europe’s OptionsSTANFORD – Many Europeans have come to believe that they have weathered the economic and financial storm.
In Chinese “sponge cities” such as Shenzhen, rain gardens, together with green roofs and artificial wetlands, are already being used to manage storm water, aided by permeable paving materials that allow water to filter through to the substrate.
Will Turkey Weather the Middle East Storm?
Iran increasingly feels drained by the economic support it gives to the Syrian army and to Hezbollah in Lebanon, while Russia’s authorities, now also confronting a currency crisis, are battling the perfect storm.
Because of their limited participation in international financial markets, these countries have, so far, been somewhat shielded from the storm.
Then a minor academic storm broke out.
And, unlike political movements, crowds tend to form quickly and organically, like dark clouds gathering to form a storm, and their objectives are immediate: surround this police station, seize that ministry, etc.
Of course, images that recall Hitler’s goose-stepping storm troopers are the last thing that China’s leaders have in mind for their Olympics; after all, official Chinese nationalism proclaims the country’s “peaceful rise” within an idyll of “harmonious development.”
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