The tongue wounds more than a lance.

Let s be honest There is a Roma problem in Europe, and it is getting worse.

But, though they are gone, the issue of regional leadership remains. Indeed, it is growing more important by the day.

But it is the poorest nations that feel these blows most sharply.

Indeed, it is growing more important by the day.

With each day, questions about the fallout for the region become more pressing.

The need for more foreign language teachers here is becoming urgent.

As the poet Terence, the Roman poet once said, he said, The less my hope, the hotter my love.

However, the issue of the reduction of industrial production in the region is becoming much more poignant than the problems of workers.

The old version of the European response what psychologists might call dollar envy will only become more acute.

The environmental challenge is even more stark in developing countries, where five billion of the earth's six billion people live.

This blow was felt all the more sharply as it became obvious that curtailment of these popular forums did not stir a wide public reaction.

The euro s recent sharp rise has made this competitiveness problem even more severe, reducing growth further and making fiscal imbalances even larger.

But the likely failures are equally noteworthy the problem of too big to fail banks is now worse than it was before the crisis. Increased resolution authority will help, but only a little in the last crisis, US government blinked, failed to use the powers that it had, and needlessly bailed out shareholders and bondholders all because it feared that doing otherwise would lead to economic trauma.

But the likely failures are equally noteworthy the problem of too big to fail banks is now worse than it was before the crisis.

But anxieties about being swamped by foreigners and dominated by outside powers are more acute in smaller countries, whose political elites seem particularly impotent.

History teaches that such swings are not sustainable, and that the more excessive they become, the sharper and more costly are the eventual reversals and the graver the consequences for the financial system and the economy.

Perhaps even in the depths of Mongolia, you would have heard the dire warnings emitted by journalists. You would have distilled from these agonized noises that the report concluded that global warming is worse than we had imagined, and that we need to take swift and strong action right now.

You would have distilled from these agonized noises that the report concluded that global warming is worse than we had imagined, and that we need to take swift and strong action right now.

Poet C.K. Williams reads his work at TED2001. As he colors scenes of childhood resentments, college loves, odd neighbors and the literal death of youth, he reminds us of the unique challenges of living.

While many of my peers at school had in fact changed and had come to accept and even rely on us returnees for support, the Japanese public hadn't, and I felt the difference in perspective even acutely as I was now more grown up.