Three in five Koreans, according to a recent government poll, believe Lee Myung-bak took too hard a line against the North during his soon-to-end five-year term.
But he also signaled that he wanted more concessions from Mr. Sharon and, without referring to any specific issue, appeared to warn him against taking too hard a line.
Mr Abe must not shrink from confronting them, even though that means taking on parts of his own party.The danger abroad is that he takes too hard a line, confusing national pride with a destructive and backward-looking nationalism.
Assuaging fears that taking too hard a line with Iran could lead to a conflict that would hurt the whole region, Mr Bush tempered his tough language with the hope that if the "talented Iranian people" moderated their rulers' behaviour, Iran and America could become best of friends.
And most on both sides know taking too hard a line would be idiotic--there is no way to get everything actors would possibly desire (and might very well deserve) at all stages of development; the costs would be too high.
In our quest for simple solutions to complex problems — or maybe just because nuance and subtlety take too much hard work — many of the seemingly logical equations that govern management thought are just plain wrong.
And in consequence, not to diminish their accomplishments, freestylers were hard (and still would be, except there really aren't any of them left) to take too seriously and hard not to chuckle about for a variety of reasons, some of them just enumerated.
Mr. Pressler and Antonio Meneses, 50, the trio's cellist since 1998, concluded that it would be too hard and take too long to break in yet another violinist.
To readers who have not pondered the alternatives themselves, and who already think that the huddles in football take too long, it's hard to communicate the thrill.
