He wants to make military history respectable by enfolding it into intellectual and cultural history.

NEWYORKER: Slaughterhouse

The crisis now enfolding Angola results from a fundamental lack of trust between the two parties.

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This single finding, however, has obscured our most important findings, and their significance to what is now enfolding in Iran.

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Hou, a longtime master of enfolding historical and personal subjects, here yields up platitudes of the minor artistic beau monde in which Song lands.

NEWYORKER: The Flight of the Red Balloon

Whatever the degree to which Mr Obama might sanction intervention - and dreadful events on the ground might force his hand - it is clear that the diminished US appetite for warfare, combined with the breadth of the crises enfolding the region, would most likely mean that any direct Western military role would be short lived and of limited significance.

BBC: Bashar al-Assad