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Poland’s right is the political equivalent of the tower of Babel.
The Old Testament tells how work on the tower in Shinar, in ancient Babylon, was disrupted because man aspired to reach the heavens and divinity.
But the West has neither the moral right nor a strategic possibility of withdrawing into an “ivory tower,” something which in most cases does not exist.
With the tottering tower of communist totalitarianism collapsed, the Iron Curtain's fall revealed the actual contours of the world as well as the depth of its challenge.
As for Trump, he gave us his tower, one of the ugliest in Manhattan, with its clunky, derivative architecture, its gigantic atrium, its 25-meter waterfall to impress the tourists – a Tower of Babel in glass and steel built by a Don Corleone from the dregs in which all of the world’s languages will indeed be fused into one.
But if economists were confined to the ivory tower, we might be unbiased, but we would also be ignorant of practicalities – and thus even less capable of predicting problems.
If there were more disruption within the ivory tower, economies just might become more resilient to disruption outside it.
This may sound like an idealistic thought experiment dreamed up in an ivory tower, but data-driven policies are having a real-world impact in several countries.
Next to them, a powerful tower, designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind and nearly completed, rises vigorously into the sky, a symbol of the triumph of life over the forces of death.
A few months before the landmark building was to be completed in 2009, officials at the network conducted an unauthorized fireworks display, sparking a fire that consumed a smaller building in the complex, a wedge-shaped tower that Beijing’s residents had nicknamed the Termite’s Nest.
The economic stimulus to be gained from modernizing the slum tower blocks that house so many immigrant families would be equal, and probably greater, than that of building super-highways.
At the time, North Korea had agreed to blow up the Yongbyon reactor’s cooling tower, to reciprocate the US’s symbolic act with one of its own.
As Kissinger, a committed Sinophile, points out: “That the Chinese Empire should tower over its geographical sphere was taken virtually as a law of nature, an expression of the Mandate of Heaven.”
The Spires of RenewalPRAGUE - A dominant feature of Prague is the Gothic tower of the Cathedral of St. Vitus, St. Wenceslas and St. Adalbert.
That tower is now wrapped in scaffolding because – for the first time ever and, so to speak, at the eleventh hour – it is being renovated.
In May, he blew up a nuclear test site with the same cinematic flair that Kim Jong-il displayed when he dynamited a nuclear reactor’s cooling tower ten years ago.
To be sure, pursuant to a February 2007 agreement, North Korea did take concrete steps to disable its nuclear facilities, including demolition of the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor in the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center in June 2008.
But, by restarting its nuclear program without rebuilding the cooling tower, North Korea has avoided many of those costs.
The Russian-Roulette PresidencyWASHINGTON, DC – Unless US President Donald Trump decides that he has had enough, and returns to his gilded Manhattan tower, his presidency’s metastasizing crisis will continue to haunt him.
As for Trump himself, his gilded tower in Manhattan will always be beckoning him.
The answer is paradoxical: by becoming intellectually more modest, less beholden to the rarified ways of the ivory tower and the lecture hall, and likelier to listen to people who do not have a PhD.
And for its part, the G20 must once again act as the world’s control tower.
Four o'clock struck in the Montsou tower and the cold became keener.
A church, also of brick, looked like a new model of a large furnace, with its square tower already stained by the floating coal dust.
Yet a caretaker lived there, old Mouque, to whom the Company had given up, almost beneath the destroyed tower, two rooms which were constantly threatened by destruction from the expected fall of the last walls.
Then it was the low square tower, where the pumping-engine was groaning, which fell on its face like a man mown down by a bullet.
The quarter before ten had sounded from the tower clock, without his having yet ventured on anything.
He wearied his brain in devising clever stratagems; a moment later, he felt them to be absurd; he was in short extremely wretched, when two struck from the clock tower.
'From the rocks above, you can see the tower of the dovecote.
But for those tiresome sounds, a cry of joy, issuing from among the rocks, might have reached her in her tower.
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