The reason it is ailing is not because of its principles promoting economic openness and trade, many of which China is practicing better than we are lately.
Outside the stricken property sector, though, Dubai doesn't look like it's ailing.
Like an athlete on steroids, it is ailing from the inside.
The system isn't broken but it's ailing, Melrose says, and "people are waking up to that fact".
The most successful attempt is ABC's TGIF block, although it is ailing, with the sitcom "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," the Friday prime-time cornerstone, moving from ABC to the kid-savvy WB.
"I don't think it's dead, but I do think it's ailing," he replied.
AW: When we are offered a John McCain, who is too old for the job (and I cherish old age and old men but not to lead the world when it is ailing) or a George Bush, or a Sarah Palin, how unloved we are as Americans becomes painfully plain.
It is unclear what was ailing del Potro, but the slight shift in the balance has tilted proceedings significantly in Federer's favor for the time being.
Whatever was ailing Bjorn, it was clearly contagious.
