Coming to Grips with History

You get them closer and closer and closer and then at some point the strong force grips them together.

The US will find it equally urgent to come to grips with a very different China. Codependency was never a sustainable strategy for either side.

The unbelievable crimes. Our history grips us like a nightmare, for the crimes of the past scar the present and induce yet more crimes in the future.

And we're going to have to come to grips with the fact that there are differences between us as individuals that we will know about, and between subpopulations of humans as well.

And I think it's particularly painful for us now in the West in the grips of what I sometimes think of as a Control Z culture Control Z like the computer command, undo.

That is bad news for those of us who would like to see an effective, technocratic economic policymaking process emerge in Washington. We must somehow come to grips with the fact that we no longer have negotiating partners on the Republican side.

Those proposals, which address the heart of the issue, constitute a significant development. They not only demonstrate a willingness and a determination to come to grips with the question of expansion but also demonstrate that the question can no longer be put off.

The importance of coming to grips with values like justice, equity, truth, becomes increasingly evident as students discover that interest alone cannot tell them what they need to know when the issue is rethinking education, our approach to health, or strategies for achieving an economics of equity.

But we haven't witnessed a big asteroid impact, so this is a type of neo catastrophism, and it took about 20 years for the scientific establishment to finally come to grips yes, we were hit and yes, the effects of that hit caused a major mass extinction.

For weeks, central Russia has been in the grips of its worst ever heat wave, which has caused probably thousands of fatalities. As a result of drought and heat, more than 500 wildfires have raged out of control, smothering Moscow in smoke and threatening several nuclear facilities.

But in fact, if you look around the world, not only are there hope spots for where we may be able to fix problems, there have been places where problems have been fixed, where people have come to grips with these issues and begun to turn them around.

Whether we actively believe them or consciously reject them, our culture remains in the grips of certain archetypal stories about our supremacy over others and over nature the narrative of the newly discovered frontier and the conquering pioneer, the narrative of manifest destiny, the narrative of apocalypse and salvation.

Indeed, Havel and a previous laureate, Desmond Tutu, were consistent advocates of awarding the prize to him. But, in addition to supporting Liu s achievements by making certain that they are represented at the ceremony in Oslo, world leaders need to come to grips with the Chinese government s reaction.

Note with concern the continuing and diverse dimensions of human trafficking for various forms of labour and sexual exploitation in the Asian and Pacific region, both within countries and across international borders, and the difficulty in coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem due to its clandestine nature

They are not quite the pandemic that their explosive growth pattern resembles, but nor is their emergence completely benign. Those who would aim to emulate US productivity trends must come to grips with how they feel about big box stores sprouting across their countryside s, driving down wages and plowing under smaller scale retailers.

The once and future president argues that he has already made Russia stronger, and that, as financial uncertainty grips much of the developed world in 2012, the country has become an island of stability envied by many. Perhaps, but it is difficult to be a heroic leader and the butt of popular jokes simultaneously.

It is necessary because persistently weak global growth is unlikely to provide the solid external demand for Chinese exports that it once did. But it is also essential, because China s new leadership seems determined to come to grips with a vast array of internal imbalances that threaten the environment, promote destabilizing income inequality, and exacerbate regional disparities.

LONDON As the Ebola virus grips an unprecedentedly wide swath of Africa, many are asking whether it is time to begin administering untested drugs and vaccines. Given that the disease can kill up to 90 of its victims higher than the mortality rate from the bubonic plague there seems to be little to lose from relaxing clinical norms.

And, though President Xi Jinping s fight against corruption may cause economic growth to slow further, as paralysis grips public contracting, there is no reason for Xi to let up. On the contrary, other forces undermining trust in his government widespread environmental problems, high and rising levels of inequality, and private sector fraud need to be addressed with equal vigor.

Acceptance of shared responsibilities in coming to grips with cyber tensions is essential if the US and China are to re engage on the other geostrategic and economic challenges that they both face. The failure of July s S ED was a red flag, yet another indication that the bilateral relationship is headed in the wrong direction.

The failure of both US and Chinese leaders to recognize the mutual benefits of an investment treaty is disturbing. Going slow on such an obvious win win reform suggests either that each country attaches little importance to its growth imperative or that they are unwilling to address that urgency by coming to grips with the increasingly insidious trust deficit that divides them.

The survey claims that the Marital Age Law is seldom enforced and when a petition is filed for an under age marriage, it is almost always granted, usually explained by the fact that these marriages usually occur in populations that are experiencing changes and are only recently coming to grips with a new social context that has a different approach to public policy norms.

The Niger has borders with Algeria a country affected by violent armed Islamic fundamentalists who continue to claim victims to the north Nigeria where several federal states have unilaterally adopted Sharia law as their state law  to the south Chad the northern region of which is in the grips of an armed rebellion to the east and Mali whose eastern region is in constant turmoil to the west.