ITS conflicts may be never-ending and its politics ever more scandal-ridden, but for a while Israel has had an economy to be proud of.
But the show's appeal is not in its conflicts — it is in its continual argument for the values of honest pay for hard work, loyalty, and small acts of unseen kindness.
Part of the reason we love it is that its conflicts, its violence, its triumphs and failures of leadership and governance and character, mirror our own.
From book to book, the Histories lets you track Persia's expansion, mapped by its conflicts with whomever it is trying to subjugate at the time.
They are, it emerges, still caught up in its conflicts; still trying, 15 years on, to settle old scores.
But the nation's problems run deep, and analysts say that it will take many years for its conflicts to be resolved.
Criminal justice is the most hotly debated area of human rights – its reciprocal nature, its conflicts and the fact that it is based on a principle of essential dignity.
Another factor was an unusual degree of U.S. inattention to the region during the George W. Bush Administration — distracted as it was by the "War on Terror" and its conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It prefers single-episode stories to long, complicated serial plots; it doesn't involve alternate worlds or advanced technology; and its conflicts are solved through cooperation, not combat.
"Arms," from 1984, became a signature dance for Marshall; in it, two people, standing side by side, enact a relationship — its conflicts and resolutions, its pain and hope — in six minutes.
