Today, fairy tales move on two different tracks: films like "Snow White and the Huntsman" and television series like "Once Upon a Time" add existential torment, surreal plot twists and macabre special effects for their adolescent and adult audience, while adaptations for children tame the tales' original melodrama and impose moral lessons on their plotlines.
The late Chinese premier Zhou Enlai, when asked his assessment of the French Revolution, is supposed to have replied: "It's a bit too soon to say, is it not?" Yet advocates of civic education are sure they already know the lessons of Sept. 11, and they seek to impose those lessons upon a captive audience of schoolchildren.
The problem, on the far from ideal streets of Iraq, is that until a general election takes place, nobody will be seen to have the moral authority to impose the necessary peace.The lesson of the occupation so far is that filling the political vacuum is part and parcel of filling the security vacuum.
Uncertainly, sometimes incompetently, the Soviet armed forces learned the lessons imposed on them by Germany's panzer armies in 1941.
Meanwhile, Minnie has a standard-issue range of other problems to confront, including relations with her former stepfather, Pascal Christopher Melonii), a wealthy man who pays for her school, imposes minor life lessons and social disciplines on her and Gretel, and harbors an enduring grudge toward Charlotte.
Astonishingly, President Obama has not read history books to learn the greatest lesson: You cannot impose democracy at the barrel of a gun.
As you get older and more experienced, wisdom is great, but you also have to be careful not to automatically impose your mental framework and your lessons.
For most Americans, including the man in the White House, the lesson is that outsiders cannot impose order on chaos.
Moores, therefore, has the chance to impose himself while showing that he has learnt the lessons from last time when, according to the testimonies of Michael Vaughan and Graeme Swann, he had quite an overbearing and authoritative approach.
We shouldn't hold interest rates higher than they need to be in order to impose additional cost on borrowers to teach lenders a lesson.
