It will be the first "Romeo and Juliet" on Broadway since Paul Ryan Rudd and Pamela Payton-Wright played the doomed lovers in a 1977 Circle in the Square production.

WSJ: Bloom, Rashad in Broadway's 'Romeo and Juliet'

This may explain why the stand-in Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, seemed to be trying to square a circle when he said today in Prague that his technocratic government would take his demand for a footnote to the October summit only if they had a promise of no more funny business from the president.

ECONOMIST: European politics

To succeed in India, outsourcers must square this circle.

ECONOMIST: Domestic outsourcing in India

The need to square the circle is an occupational hazard in politics, that doesn't sound like a "total rejection" to me.

BBC: Local benefit caps: Labour try to square the circle

The RoboLaw researchers hope to square this circle when they deliver their findings in 2014.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

It would seem possible to square the circle only with tax rises elsewhere or more spending cuts, in a society where the pain of Mr Tremonti's earlier austerity measures is starting to be felt.

ECONOMIST: Italian politics