Word: breakdown
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...Iraq's ethnic and religious breakdown would actually require more than one Mandela to hold the country together. But leaders reaching out across sectarian and ethnic lines have not fared well in Iraqi democracy. The secular democrats were heavily defeated in the first post-Saddam election, and were further marginalized in the second as Iraqis voted almost exclusively on religious and ethnic lines...
...That, prosecutors said, is exactly what they most fear. To give credence to Lt. Watada's argument, they said, would create a breakdown in military order and discipline. "It's just dangerous in our Army to allow that to happen," said Capt. Dan Kuecker, one of the prosecutors. Whether the war is legal, he said, "is not a decision for a lieutenant to make - it's a decision for politicians and legislators." Watada's behavior, Capt. Kuecker told the hearing, "is dishonorable and it is disgraceful...
RICE: I don't think that we are anywhere near able to make those kinds of judgments. I don't think Iraq is going to slide into civil war. They have a problem with sectarian violence. [But] I don't think that you're looking at the breakdown of the institutions; people haven't opted out of a unified Iraq. So on your question of what's better, let's be realistic: Where was the military threat? It was from Saddam Hussein's Iraq. I don't think you're going to see that from this new Iraq...
...James Barbee has witnessed a disturbing trend among his patients in New Orleans - a noticeable slide from post-Katrina anxiety to more serious, and harder to treat, cases of major depression. At the same time, the city?s system for dealing with mental health care is suffering a major breakdown of its own. "People are just wearing down," says Barbee. "There was an initial spirit about bouncing back and recovering, but it's diminished over time, as weeks have become months...
...Barbee is co-author of a report, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which tries to put some real numbers behind what many health care professionals have known anecdotally: that New Orleans may be in the midst of a serious breakdown, both among residents and the health care system needed to treat them. Barbee and his co-authors - psychiatrists Mark Townsend, also of LSUHSC, and Richard Weisler, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - pull together data that, collectively, provide a bleak snapshot of the city?s mental health condition as it approaches...