Putin's plea to use the United Nations security council to resolve the conflict sounds great, until you remember that, from the very start of this conflict, Russia has vetoed or blocked any security council action that may bring relief to Syria's civilians or bring perpetrators of abuses in Syria to account.
On Monday, Simpson, who has often seemed at pains over the conflict, sounded relieved that the intraparty fight, which strained many relationships across the state, had ended.
It's a pleasantly loose mode of listening, better attuned than the linear narrative of the 19th-century symphony to the late 20th century, an era of aural overstimulation and conflicting sound bites.
As the country reeled under mass unemployment, riots and messy overseas conflicts (sound familiar?), tabloids, campaigners and the powers that be were quick to agree that, yes, gory horror films were absolutely the biggest threat to national stability.
IF the title of this year's Venice Biennale, "Dreams and Conflicts," sounds like the name of a documentary on Middle East politics, well, you don't have to point that out to the man who came up with it.
All that angst, anger and conflict might sound terrible as a spoken sentence, but when transformed into soaring melodies, human troubles can change into timeless art.
IF THE so-called frozen conflicts of the Black Sea region are ever thawed out, somebody will need to be standing by with a very large bucket indeed.To outsiders, that may seem like an odd warning: unless you have a special interest in the obscure enclaves of small, impoverished states, where local feuds have flared up and died down, a frozen conflict may sound like a conflict you can forget.
Before the 14 August ceasefire halted that conflict, the sound of bombing echoed against the mountains in this idyllic region.
In a pragmatic trial where the intention is to mirror normal clinical practice, it is inevitable that there will be conflict with sound experimental design.
Note: Higher estimates indicate more decisional conflict; *Seattle/Puget Sound Veteran's Administration Hospital is the reference group; **STAI = State Trait Anxiety Inventory; ***EPIC = Expanded Prostate Index Composite-Short Form.
