Perhaps it was an archer with his bow

You're not so pretty when your feathers are all ruffled.

A crossbow may also have been fired at the car at some point.

It might not be such a bad idea. Your business is dying.

The Public Information and Outreach Section of UNOCI is planning training programmes for journalists during the electoral run up period with the aim of increasing their awareness of the importance of responsible and professional reporting in an electoral process that is likely to be fraught with tension.

With employment rising as Japan s economy moves toward realizing potential output, monetary stimulus will create inflationary pressures and public expenditure will yield sharply diminishing returns. At that point, significant growth can be achieved only by increasing the economy s real productive capacity.

Asia is, of course, experiencing rapid economic growth, but managing the region s strong nationalist tensions calls for the creation of regional security structures, together with closer economic integration. Complicating matters even more is what US scholar Kenneth Lieberthal and Wang Jisi, the dean of international studies at Peking University, called in a recent paper for the Brookings Institution strategic distrust.

China and Japan seem to be taking steps toward better relations, after a period of high tensions. Even Russia has recently tilted toward China, establishing stronger connections on many fronts, including energy and transport.

When demonstrations erupted in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, ultimately leading to the demise of three old and weary dictatorships, no one knew which forces, institutions, and procedures would emerge from the protesters demand for democracy. And yet, despite the unprecedented and unforeseeable nature of events or perhaps because of it hope ran high.

The battle lines are drawn between those governments that regard the free flow of information, and the ability to access it, as a matter of fundamental human rights, and those that regard official control of information as a fundamental sovereign prerogative. The contest is being waged institutionally in organizations like the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and daily in countries like Syria.

I have no first hand knowledge of the legislative process in the United States. But, as an outsider, I am amazed at the apparent intensity of lobbying, and at the amounts of money that firms and their associations spend.

The confident side of the Chinese leadership s split personality is easy to understand. From the late 1980 s until 2000, many observers presented the Party as being on its last legs, certain to succumb to the Leninist extinction that began with communism s collapse in Europe.

The conflict is already spilling into the streets, with opposition called strikes paralyzing daily life in large parts of Nepal. And, unless the constitutional crisis is resolved soon, the strikes will be only the beginning.

Civil society had been energized by the Maidan revolution that ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych, but it was in turmoil. Debate over the association agreement with the European Union, along with the Russian backed rebellion in the east, had stoked tensions over distinctions that previously played little or no role in people s lives.

If the US pursues a predominantly confrontational approach, East Asian politics will inevitably become polarized, just as multipolar nineteenth century Europe gave way to an increasingly bipolar order in lockstep with rising tensions between Germany and Britain. America s so called pivot to Asia might have been necessary from its point of view, given the concerns of its Asian allies about China.