But to start to understand why this crisis is so intractable, two things must first be understood.
Her sisters were a more intractable matter.
Michelle de Kretser (who was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14) has taken this theme and, through a rich family history replete with joys and tragedies, adroitly demonstrated just what a baffling, intractable, multifaceted thing one person's life can be.
Her TV show, Mary Queen of Shops, followed the template of reality TV – expert goes to failing establishment, has argument with intractable owner, turns things around and returns some time later to find that things have gone back to how they were.
Of course, aid will always be needed to address the most intractable problems - things private capital cannot do on its own.
The dead spruce forest of Alaska is also a lesson, to some ecologists, of how warmer temperatures present intractable problems for living things anchored to a certain area.
STEVEN PINKER All three candidates should read all three of these books, but McCain gets first crack at Bob Harris's "Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up".
"I've said all along that I don't think the problems at Bank One are intractable, despite how badly things have gone at First USA," said Diane Glossman, an analyst with Lehman Brothers.
A sense of existence as seamless and intractable — all one hard thing — crushes and exalts the plains dweller, inducing both humility and lofty thoughts.
One key to the popularity of "Meet the Parents" is a classic moment late in the movie in which Ben Stiller, driven out of his fiancee's parents' home after a weekend of horrifying mishaps (he sets their house on fire, for one thing), faces an intractable attendant guarding the gate of his return flight.
