Some Romanian commentators slight him as a well-meaning former trade union leader out of his depth.But Mr Ciorbea has lately been proving cynics wrong, an effort that tells on his haggard face.
It has exposed unresolved problems in its efforts to reinvent itself.The wrong mixThose efforts have borne fruit: state-owned firms produced more than two-thirds of the region's GDP in the early 2000s.
Although Western experts have been vocal about what the military is doing wrong, few efforts are under way to help the Macedonians to do it right.
To be fair, this wrong-headed effort is not, strictly speaking, a rap opera, so much as Mr. Moore acting out by himself a rap opera that he directed when he taught English in China in the late '80s.
Firstly, he or she might simply and straightforwardly reject the claim that there is anything inherently wrong with effort-harnessing.
Secondly, he or she might concede that there is something inherently wrong about effort-harnessing, but argue that the threats to individual freedom or dignity from poverty are a greater evil still, justifying some degree of effort-harnessing in order to enact a social minimum.
Its memorysticks, its UMDs, and its ATRAC files have been kept around in a wrong-headed effort to "define" the market the way it had defined hardware during the 1980s and 1990s and it has fallen so far that I doubt it even knows who the iPods rivals are let alone how to avoid their traps.
And she proved at least one person wrong with the effort.
"There was nothing wrong with our effort but a lack of confidence showed".
Frank and open-minded, genuinely interested in alternative views, the general happily took the press into his confidence.In Dand, for example, a dusty region on the southern outskirts of Kandahar, he recently exhorted his troops, in front of this correspondent, to tell him what they thought was "wrong" with their effort to secure Afghanistan, whether they thought it was "doable".
