The weakness in the theory was the surprise attack, in which the aggressor state struck at military installations to eliminate its victim's capacity to hit back.
In Riyadh on Sunday, Richard L. Armitage, the deputy secretary of state, struck a supportive tone, one that seemed to emphasize American hope than certainty.
But Piketty's rational solution that the eurozone countries share their debts and become a single state strikes me as naive in the extreme.
Although there may be signs of recovery in the national economy, it typically takes the states much longer to dust themselves off, particularly those like Arizona, a fast-growing state struck particularly hard by the foreclosure crisis.
The crime and two-month trial riveted Connecticut and drew attention far beyond the state, striking fear into many with its randomness on a suburban street of green lawns and flower beds.
But Morris declared it black men's duty to "go right" — to serve only once they could be officers, and the state struck the word "white" from its militia law.
LONDON — The 16 countries that recognize the British monarch as head of state struck a historic blow for women's rights on Friday, abolishing male precedence in the order of succession to the throne.
Clinton's position of defending Obama's record on healthcare and Wall Street reform was also reversed on foreign policy, where the former secretary of state struck a slightly more hawkish tone over how to tackle the Islamic State.
She said, for example, that the new administration would make every effort to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state, striking a somewhat softer tone than her campaign statements about how a nuclear Iran would be intolerable.
Mr. Cuomo, by contrast, blasted Mr. Pataki for "lost opportunities," vowed to improve the upstate economy and promised that "2002 is going to be the year that the Empire State strikes back".
