The problems that life poses often have no solution.
Kim Jong-il, after all, spent his first decade or so of public life posing as an expert on film and ideology.
But for those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, university life poses a host of academic, medical and personal challenges.
Modern democratic life poses a unique challenge to intellectuals because it is prosaic, operates through public institutions, relies on specialized knowledge and respects common opinion.
The moratorium adopted three years ago urged Episcopal dioceses to restrain from consecrating bishops whose "manner of life" posed a challenge to the rest of the Anglican Communion.
They're some of the most remote parts of the British Isles, presenting challenges to simple everyday life posed by nowhere else in the UK – just as George Orwell learnt in Jura 60 years ago.
But they agreed to write answers to nine questions about their personal faith and the role of faith in public life posed to them by Cathedral Age, the magazine of the Washington National Cathedral.
Barely seven weeks later, an exultant Hitler, visiting Paris for the first and only time in his life, posed like a tourist for cameras in front of the Eiffel Tower.
