Each of them has a single unbroken reading line, whether it's going zigzag across the walls or spiraling up a column or just straight left to right, or even going in a backwards zigzag across those 88 accordion folded pages.

It's Calvino's idea of the quickest way between two points is the circuitous line, not the straight line.

Ms. Dairiam said that the Government's response asserting that the dowry symbolized a woman's transfer from her family home to her marital domicile demonstrated a very stereotypical view of women.

That may sound banal, but it probably makes sense to recall that simple truth from time to time because the exercise we are now embarking upon is especially important.

Now those of us that live in the West, if I can use that term, I think have a much more hidebound attitude or sense of music that somehow it's all about skill and systems.

The next report should indicate what steps were being taken to educate the general public in Gabon in order to change stereotypical attitudes towards women, thereby raising their social status.

But fear not, claim advocates of unconventional monetary policy. What central banks cannot achieve with traditional tools can now be accomplished through the circuitous channels of wealth effects in asset markets or with the competitive edge gained from currency depreciation.

It was indicated that the reference to the terms that regulate each shipment was meant to circumvent the difficulties that arose from the shipment being a mere performance under the contract of carriage, while defining the scope of application of the draft instrument required reference to contractual stipulations.

During hostilities the right interpretation is at issue and it would be pedantry to press the analogy between war and legal process so far as to regard the meaning ultimately sanctioned by victory as representing the continuing obligation of the original compact.

I can start any number of places, because this process is also I think very different from some of the morning sessions, which you had such a kind of very clear, such a lineal idea, like the last one, say, with Howard, that I think the creative process in architecture, the design process, is extremely circuitous. It's labyrinthine.

He also accomplished, in a somewhat round about way, another goal showing the flag, so to speak, in the face of the mounting challenge from Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who, thanks to virtually unlimited supplies of oil dollars and Cuban doctors and foot soldiers, is riding high across Latin America.

One imagines that Zweig would have been comforted by the post WWII creation of the United Nations and the Bretton Woods system, not to mention the subsequent decades of reconstruction and reconciliation. He could have witnessed the cooperation and progress that marked the post war era.

In a recent study, Jennifer Francis and Stephen Vavrus showed that the northern hemisphere polar jet stream, an air current that flows over the middle to northern latitudes of North America, Europe, and Asia, has begun to show larger and more persistent meanders. This increases the likelihood of extreme weather events, like Russia s heat wave and Pakistan s floods in 2010, which affected millions of people.

Scientists go on trial for technical espionage, while ex KGB spies sign multi billion dollar contracts. Non governmental organizations are met with suspicion and harassment, with new legislation seemingly designed to vanquish them.

North and South Korea must begin the work of reconciliation and community building on their own initiative, as France and Germany did in 1952. Economics must once again outflank politics, with trade, investment, tourism, and technology transfer intensifying across the 38th Parallel.