Word: explicitness
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...jail in Manila after being caught with explosives, to wage sectarian conflicts in Indonesia's Sulawesi and Maluku regions. But as increasing numbers of JI personnel are picked up, the group, like its patron al-Qaeda, is changing strategies. Last week the Canadian and Australian embassies in Manila received explicit and credible threats of terrorist attacks. Though not soft targets, these embassies are located in commercial office towers, not easily protected compounds like the U.S. embassy...
Even the adoption of a proposal with less explicit prohibitions—for example, one that simply says that racist speech is bad without punishing the students who say it—will have a chilling effect on discourse. It would be tragic if students were reluctant to discuss diversity issues on campus for fear of repercussions under such broad, meaningless guidelines. The administration of the Harvard Business School, for example, recently invoked a very general Community Standards regulation that students have “respect for the rights, differences and dignity of others,” in order...
...tale of a two-decade-delayed love affair between a married doctor and a nurse in a China slouching toward modernity, Waiting established Jin as the poet of dreams deferred. His follow up novel, The Crazed, is stylistically similar, but this time Jin has made his politics more explicit. Set in the heartbreaking spring of 1989, The Crazed exposes a struggle to awake from a nightmare of personal and social oppression?before the inferno of Tiananmen...
...humiliate or provoke anyone," he says. "It's the Council, not UNMOVIC, that will choose between war and peace." Blix took an active role in the debate preceding the adoption of U.N. Resolution 1441, signaling his belief that the effectiveness of inspections depends both on unanimity and on an explicit warning to Iraq of the consequences of noncompliance. The Council gave him what he (and Bush) wanted, but Blix knows that the unanimous vote has not resolved differences among Council members. Mediating such tensions is all part of the diplomatic life Blix chose decades ago. Still, wouldn't he rather...
...confidential manner. A visitor’s wish about which option to choose is respected except in extreme circumstances when there is imminent risk of serious harm and there seem to be no alternatives other than the ombudsperson taking some action. How the office functions is made explicit at the on-set of every meeting with a thorough explanation about what the office can and cannot do. The majority of my more than 600 visitors last year chose the option of dealing directly with the parties involved with their concern. Ombudspeople do not discourage people from dealing directly with each...