The fight over borrowing can seem petty to voters, part of the general dysfunction of a place that often cannot get past proposals and positioning.
(Dargis) 'SAVAGE GRACE' (No rating, 1 37) Exquisite clothes and picturesque settings frame this real-life family Gothic about the florid dysfunction of a wealthy family.
(Scott) 'SAVAGE GRACE' (No rating, 1 37) Exquisite clothes and picturesque settings frame this real-life family Gothic about the florid dysfunction of a wealthy family.
"The lives of these two fine young women and the happiness of their families were shattered by an unprovoked violent, vicious attack, mounted to satiate the perverse sexual dysfunction of a despicable gang of thugs," he said.
Paradoxically, the very dysfunction of a struggling two-tier Europe may represent the best chance for recovery if it leads to devaluation of the euro against the dollar, which many see as long overdue.
Having to fight such outcomes so hard to avoid them, only to see them reappear, while fighting a decline in internal democracy, shows the dysfunction of a party of which I can no longer be a part.
And yet none of that approaches the dysfunction of a father-son relationship that seems, in emotional terms, to be relatively better: that of the Mubaraks, Hosni and Gamal.
They are undermining American leadership in Asia, impeding the functioning of the national security machinery, upsetting global markets and raising questions about the political dysfunction of a country that has long been the world's democratic standard-bearer.
But it came amid growing fears that insurgents are regrouping in Baghdad, Diyala, Falluja and elsewhere, eager to capitalize on the prospect of American troops leaving and the dysfunction of a political class that has yet to agree on an Iraqi government, nearly five months after the election.
