Aaron Koblin Artfully visualizing our humanity

He s a tough negotiator.

All those things are so artfully made!

By shattering that coalition, Hatoyama destroyed the governing majority Ozawa had worked so cunningly to construct.

One is North Korea, whose recent behavior has been clever and deceptive.

A Japanese military officer and Japanese women view the race from an elaborately decorated grandstand.

The new Emir will now need to navigate skillfully between the Al Sabah family s factions and a newly empowered parliament.

Video Crows have become highly skilled at making a living in these new urban environments.

Illegality and wrongdoing were artfully cloaked as an incontrovertible, science tested natural law, the survival of the fittest.

Despite trying to annex an Arab neighbor, Saddam was able to claim the nationalist mantle against the Americans.

I was intrigued and, while the assistant was away on his errand, through deft questioning discerned the etymology of the Fertility car.''

These problems are exceedingly common and artfully avoided because the science that would account for them just doesn t exist.

Artfully, though shamelessly, he has tried to sell this action as an effort to bring about stability and help fight the war on terror more effectively.

Lula has been able to neatly dovetail his socialist roots with traditional Brazilian nationalism, which has always been strong in the country s armed forces.

At the Hiroshima museum itself, the victim role has been exploited in ways that similarly distort memory.

The Islamic State extols the purity of seventh century Islam, but it is extremely adept at using twenty first century media.

Now, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, he is shrewdly forcing a divided and risk averse West to choose between war and accommodation.

Analysts say he was especially adept at detecting early signals of discontent and using emissaries to massage and defang opponents.

The lesson is that booms have to be managed adeptly, and that financiers have to be supervised in their pursuit of ever higher returns.

For now, however, China, a great country and a growing power, is handling its economic affairs with more sophistication and a surer touch than it is addressing its political challenges.

China miscalculated by deviating from the smart strategy of a rising power and violating Deng s dictum that China should proceed cautiously and skillfully keep a low profile.

Terrorists have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in today s media age, but, for the most part, America and the governments of the other democracies have not. Consider that the violent extremists have their own media relations committees aimed at manipulating elite opinion.

Terrorists have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in today s media age, but, for the most part, America and the governments of the other democracies have not.

A little known Ukrainian indie rock collective has captured the hearts of YouTube users and Apple fans with a cleverly shot music video that now has over half a million views.

It seeks to be finely balanced, respecting the regime s sovereignty while subtly pressing home the point in unison, as neighboring states.

In fact, India s reserved places scheme operates as a deliberate smokescreen, for it allows the government cleverly to mask the real issue, which is access to primary education for India s disadvantaged.

On the Ku Klux Klan s Web sites, economics now vies for space with race hatred. Indeed, the two combine to produce a neatly perverse analysis globalization is bad because it gives our race s jobs to other races in developing nations.

Indeed, the two combine to produce a neatly perverse analysis globalization is bad because it gives our race s jobs to other races in developing nations.

Besides its obvious benefits to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s retrograde government, this will deftly weaken the South Caucasus s links with the West, which the US and Europe have spent a decade fostering.

Aphorism enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis, metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make, Geary says.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

All of this could augment Russia s leverage with China, which has an interest in increasing its influence over Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan, but has subtly sought to exploit Russia s isolation.

India s private sector is efficient and entrepreneurial, and its capital and management skills have proven able to control and manage assets in the sophisticated financial markets of the developed West.

By relenting just a little to intense global pressure to revalue its exchange rate, the Chinese leadership has masterfully stifled the growing chorus of demands to rein in its growing trade surplus.

Thus, with his level of bribery deemed small, and his wife artfully scapegoated, the only high crime of which Bo stands accused is dereliction of duty.

Indeed, Putin and Medvedev have worked in perfect tandem with respect to Georgia, cooperating and skillfully performing their different roles, with Putin cast in the lead role of the menacing god of a Russian reckoning, and Medvedev in the supporting role of a possible humanitarian peacemaker.

Not since Gustav Stresemann, Weimar Germany's foreign minister, played the Soviet Union and the West off against each other, has a leader with so weak a hand played his cards so effectively.

Yet, Georgian designers, adept at navigating the country s intricate social and family networks, say they can more easily find their niches in this visual bohemia than in the establishment meccas of London or Paris.

During a recent trip with Ban to Egypt and Tunisia, I watched in awe as he deftly backed the democratic changes underway in those two countries while simultaneously dealing with many other upheavals in the region.