I don't see a crisis on the horizon.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

The closing of Good Hope's emergency room and its inpatient psychiatric unit presented us with a real crisis.

Europe was suffering from a competitiveness crisis.

In the Pearl harbor crisis, there was a wholly American, selfless response, down to how the nurses dealt with the attack, using their stockings to dress wounds, their lipstick to mark who would live or die. Imagine that. That is what hooked me.

One who in a crisis forgets nautical language and shouts: 'For God's sake turn left!'