If your brain is not functioning properly, and a drug can make it work better, then it makes sense to take the pill.

BBC: Joanna Moncrief

To the contrary, in the areas where the Iraqi regime allows it to function properly (more accurately, where the regime is not able to prevent it from functioning properly), the programme has made Iraqis better off in some ways than they were before the Gulf war.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The right approach is to engage constructively with Russia while not being afraid to criticise it and to try hard to persuade the Russians that the West can be a friend, not an enemy, if only their country resumes its path towards being a properly functioning democracy.

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