Few Pakistanis have heard of Dr. Shaikh, but news of his woes has leapt the borders, flitting across the Internet.
And the Belarussian leader is in a hurry, both because his economy is (even) wobblier than Russia's and because he seems to think that, under existing agreements with Russia, he can leap across the border and win Mr Yeltsin's job at Russia's presidential election next year.
After the Syrian uprising started in March 2011, Prime Minister Najib Mikati of Lebanon proclaimed a policy of "disassociation" from either side in Syria, hoping to keep the fires from leaping across the border.
Today Hong Kong has $72 billion invested in China, nearly all of it in manufacturing.Two examples show what has been achieved by this leap across the border.
The company hopes that as the euro is adopted and retailers become more international, its system will leap across borders to become the single European standard.
They leap over borders and transcend the ozone.
Without crisis-management mechanisms like fiscal transfers from richer to poorer members and a central bank willing to be a lender of last resort, financial crises can leap borders and doom the whole euro zone to recession.
The V&A show demonstrates how the great 20th-century impulse, in the arts, was for international connection, and what was Diaghilev if not a global manager of wonder, a man who, out of his Russian beginnings, sought forms of wordless magic that could leap over borders and time zones and native conventions?
Supply chains leap borders and oceans; calls to customer services can be answered a continent away.
EVERY so often, a tool will leap across professional borders and become standard in restaurant kitchens.
