Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.
As the world transforms, moves closer together, jobs are displaced, and the world of work completely changes the way we live, the way we think. As that revolution goes on around us, it is going to pose political challenges of which immigration is one very obvious one, which are going to be extremely difficult to deal with. But it's like free trade. You know, in the end, if we go protectionist, we'll make a mistake.
Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.
Beyond violating our laws, visa overstays, pose - and they really are a big problem, pose a substantial threat to national security.
When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
I believe we should use any and all means necessary to take out people who pose a threat to us and our friends around the world.
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.
I've been asked to pose for Playboy.
I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.
I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.
You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.
So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.
Your tree pose is going crazy and you're falling; and your leg is burning; and it feels impossible to maintain any sort of stability practice observing what's happening instead of getting wrapped up in the circumstance. If you can learn to be easy with your breath in these moments, your body and mind will follow.
So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.
In each pose there should be repose.
There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese.
Already there exists a growing international concern that Israel has become "an apartheid state" pursuing policies manifesting a "settler colonial" mentality. Such perceptions pose a challenge to postcolonial international society that will not be indefinitely ignored, especially if Palestinians achieve greater unity and tactical focus.