I would like first to congratulate Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel on his very insightful and straightforward statement.

Mr. Sardenberg (Brazil) I wish to thank Alvaro de Soto for his comprehensive briefing and insightful comments.

Mr. Rupel raised some insightful points today, which also will remain the focus of our attention throughout 2005.

Mr. Manongi (United Republic of Tanzania) We too join in thanking Mr. Egeland for his insightful briefing this morning.

What if we thought of fear as an amazing act of the imagination, something that can be as profound and insightful as storytelling itself?

His insightful statement to the Council this morning set an appropriate tone for addressing the challenges before the international community on that important subject.

With similar sincerity we further welcome the insightful conferences and workshops that have been organized by Russia and China in collaboration with other institutions on PAROS.

His farewell statement, offered to us so surprisingly last Tuesday, was such an oratorical masterpiece, providing us with an insightful diagnosis of the problems facing the Conference.

First of all, let me thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary General, Mr. Alvaro de Soto, for his thorough briefing and insightful observations.

Mr. Vassilakis (Greece) I would like to welcome the presence of the Secretary General and to express our appreciation for his recent and insightful report on the situation in Côte d'Ivoire (S 2005 186).

Mr. Sardenberg (Brazil) I wish at the outset to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary General, Søren Jessen Petersen, for his insightful and comprehensive presentation on the report of the Secretary General on Kosovo.

For example, for issues where written surveys of government officials may be expected to elicit a subjective or official response, alternative means such as informal interviews, surveys of citizen groups, or document analysis may be more insightful.

In this funny and insightful talk from TEDxHouston, builder Dan Phillips tours us through a dozen homes he's built in Texas using recycled and reclaimed materials in wildly creative ways. Brilliant, low tech design details will refresh your own creative drive.

We believe that the Court is required to display not only a profound knowledge of international law but also an insightful view of the international community, given the fact that the world is going through rapid changes and that international disputes of all kinds are constantly arising.

We would also like to thank the Deputy Foreign Minister of South Africa, Mr. Aziz Pahad, for his statement, in which he gave us an insightful assessment of the situation in Côte d'Ivoire from the point of view of the African Union's efforts to implement the peace plan.

Mr. McIvor (New Zealand) Let me first express, on behalf of Canada, Australia and my own country, New Zealand, thanks to the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Shi Jiuyong, for his insightful and comprehensive report on the work of the Court over the past year.

Perhaps it's not a very insightful observation, but that really started me on a path to be able to do a kind of theme and variations based on a work by Piero, in this case that remarkable painting that's in the Uffizi, The Duke of Montefeltro, who faces his consort, Battista.

And, if action prevents the problem, the public never experiences the averted calamity, and voters therefore penalize political leaders for the immediate costs that the action entails. Even if politicians have perfect foresight of the disaster that awaits if nothing is done, they may have little ability to persuade voters, or less insightful party members, that the short term costs must be paid.

In sum, a remarkable shift in the national debate 45 45 from how to make Indonesia more conservatively Islamic, to how to sustain Indonesia s tradition of religious pluralism into the future has taken place. The releases of Ba asyir and publication of Playboy , however controversial, will not themselves alter this new discourse, but they offer an insightful glimpse into just how dramatically things are changing in Indonesia.

In sum, a remarkable shift in the national debate from how to make Indonesia more conservatively Islamic, to how to sustain Indonesia s tradition of religious pluralism into the future has taken place. The releases of Ba asyir and publication of Playboy , however controversial, will not themselves alter this new discourse, but they offer an insightful glimpse into just how dramatically things are changing in Indonesia.

A second, less elegant idea is to have central banks simply raise their target inflation rates from today s norm of 2 to a higher but still moderate level of 4 . The idea of permanently raising inflation targets to 4 was first proposed in an interesting and insightful paper led by IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard, and has been endorsed by a number of other academics, including, most recently, Paul Krugman.