Israel should therefore no longer refuse to participate in such negotiations, but should evince the courage necessary to reach both short and long term agreements.

Moreover, the assistance winds its way to the recipient country at a snail's pace, and through labyrinthine procedures, which evince a certain parsimony, and even cruelty.

Now, a superorganism is a collection of individuals which show or evince behaviors or phenomena that are not reducible to the study of individuals and that must be understood by reference to, and by studying, the collective.

After all, Party leaders rarely evince their personal feelings in public, much less transgress the Party line as brazenly as Zhao did. Such individualism fit neither Leninist nor traditional Chinese proscriptions for behavior by a high official.

When his bizarre and unscheduled appearance in the square was broadcast on Central Chinese Television the next morning during one of the last days of uncensored media coverage people across China were stunned by this fleeting moment of all too human, official anguish. After all, Party leaders rarely evince their personal feelings in public, much less transgress the Party line as brazenly as Zhao did.