Flawed International Justice for Sudan

Such banks are dysfunctional and must be unwound.

This is a politically understandable but flawed policy.

There is another, less obvious, reason why the EU's policy on migration is flawed.

And I needed certificates showing that I didn t have tuberculosis, that I didn t take drugs, and that I wasn t nuts.

Americans are behaving like a dysfunctional family by shielding sex criminals in their midst through silence.

The report acknowledges that help without haircuts would be useful in a mere liquidity crisis resulting from dysfunctional markets.

In a society with weakened immunity to extremism and with an utterly dysfunctional government the authorities are, perhaps literally, playing with fire.

In the late 1990 s and the early years of this decade, the problems that incited fears of a dysfunctional state seemed to fade.

Even in the best of times, Lebanon muddles through with a politically dysfunctional government and an army that operates in the shadow of a large Shia dominated militant organization.

Embittered and unemployed, young Yemeni men often become subject to another Saudi policy gone awry its propagation for export of the Sunni Wahhabi form of Islam.

CAMBRIDGE Two years ago, a piece of faulty computer code infected Iran s nuclear program and destroyed many of the centrifuges used to enrich uranium.

Once a basket case associated in the world s eyes only with famine and drought, Ethiopia has become one of Africa s largest economies and without the benefit of gold or oil.

As these Chinese see it, the US has a rather dysfunctional government, but nevertheless insists that its political and economic system is the best in the world, and that everyone should emulate it.

As dysfunctional as a decentralized Europe seems to be these days, India might benefit from moving a few steps in that direction, even as Europe itself struggles to become more centralized.

Or, if they exist at all, they appear to be constrained by dysfunctional political systems. Their ability to act is limited by their political environment.

Still, the problem with genocide is not narrow judging, but that the crime itself is doubly irredeemable it is defective in its definition and troubling in its moral and political effects.

The Special Rapporteur urges the Iraqi authorities to follow the example set by other countries with deficient judicial systems by asking the United Nations to set up an independent tribunal which complies with international human rights standards.

Silence, and even collusion, is also typical of sex crimes within a family. Americans are behaving like a dysfunctional family by shielding sex criminals in their midst through silence.

Be it because of a sovereign default or because of large losses accumulated under complacent accounting rules, the insolvency of a large bank (particularly a European bank) is far from a remote possibility.

But the Bush administration s vision was, and remains, flawed, for it regards the US India relationship solely as a strategic one that enhances both countries military reach.

One possibility is that those investing in financial markets expect economic policy to be so dysfunctional that the global economy will remain more or less in its current depressed state for perhaps a decade, or more.

North Korea, which never had a transition and maintains heavy handed central planning, is an economic basket case. And soft socialism combined with subsidized national champions is decaying in France.

In the late 1990 s and the early years of this decade, the problems that incited fears of a dysfunctional state seemed to fade. But over the past 18 months, the specter of Weimar has once again begun to haunt Russia.

Twenty two years ago, when Anita Hill publicly accused then US Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, it was she, the alleged victim, who was scrutinized and smeared as a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty.

The Committee acknowledges that circumstances may arise in which an individual's mental health is so impaired that so as to avoid harm to the individual or others, the issuance of a committal order, without assistance or representation sufficient to safeguard her rights, may be unavoidable.

The problem is that in many countries, both developed and developing, the current relationship between the private sector and the government is often dysfunctional. Not only is it characterized by deep distrust, but the broader society does not find a closer relationship to be either legitimate or in the public interest, and for good reason.

In order to abolish this unwarranted psychoanalytic assumption, the researchers abandoned the attempt to distinguish natural from disordered conditions by context or etiology and assumed that all conditions that met the symptom based criteria were disordered.

A great amount of later work in mathematics was fruitfully developed out of the ostensibly minor lemma, which turned out to be an important early result in combinatorics, supporting the idea that within some sufficiently large systems, however disordered, there must be some order.

Most regulators and market participants agree that Europe's financial markets are dysfunctional. With banking assets amounting to roughly 300 of EU wide GDP, compared to some 70 in the United States, large pools of savings are being left unused.

But it's a hard hurdle because we got into this legal quicksand because we woke up in the 1960s to all these really bad values racism, gender discrimination, pollution they were bad values. And we wanted to create a legal system where no one could have bad values anymore.