"The hour of suffering has struck," read the headline on privately owned daily Al-Masry Al-Youm.
I was struck, reading the literature of military revolution, how often the solutions seemed to resemble the problem.
I was struck, reading local papers for a week before Carnival, by its monopoly on the news.
"I'm always struck, reading reviews, by the fact that sometimes plays are reviewed in the context of other plays, or novels in the context of other novels, but never against each other".
The Greek government may not see this, but an optimistic note - a cautious one at that - can be struck reading that a large majority of the population want to stay in the Euro and urge the government to seek a compromise with creditors.
The sign at the iron gate at the entrance to the building demolished by the American strike reads "Imam Hussein's Resthouse".
"Zaha strikes back!" read one comment on Twitter.
What is striking about reading these emails one after another after another is the diversity of experiences that lead all these women down the same path.
Two things strike you reading it.
It does not strike me reading them, in the light of the judge's rulings and his factual findings, that any of them involved an error of law.
