BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 13 - Prime Minister Ayad Allawi on Wednesday warned insurgents in Falluja, one of the most intractable cities in Iraq, that they must hand over foreign militants or face a military operation.
Public education is one of the most intractable problems the city faces.
But his words underlined the intractable problem this city presents for the peacekeepers and the United Nations administration.
In a move that exemplified Rahm Emanuel's approach to Chicago's most intractable problems, the city's new mayor sat down on Wednesday with the leaders of six major grocery-store chains to address the crisis of the city's so-called "food deserts".
"Program violence has been and continues to be a persistent and intractable issue at the city jail," Mr. Abady said.
But as months of street protests illustrate, progressive ideals run up against age-old, intractable problems in this city where class difference and corruption are nearly as immovable as the mountains.
When I visited, Filiciello looked on coolly from his desk, dipping into a tub of animal crackers, while Guardian enumerated some of the intractable financial problems the city faces.
Mr. West laments the city's intractable violence on "New God Flow," and on "Don't Like," he remixes the breakout hit by the leader of the new, youth-driven, deeply scarred Chicago hip-hop scene, Chief Keef.
This has led to a seemingly intractable dispute between the city and the university, Boulder's most imposing inhabitant, over proposed development of a 308-acre former gravel mine that the university would like to use to expand its campus.
This broad interest in better schools offers the mayoral candidates an unusual opportunity to wrestle with a problem that looks as intractable today as the city's crime rate appeared to be a few years ago.
