Word: explicitness
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...Those who enjoyed "Myst" for its emphasis on exploration and lack of explicit instruction will thrill to "Ico." After a long, wordless introductory movie about a boy taken to a crumbling, empty castle and imprisoned there, you find yourself as the boy, Ico, suddenly escaped from his cell. What to do? You start by looking around. This game rewards observation and logic far more than rapid hand-eye coordination. Unlike "Myst" it is 3-D, giving you a gods-eye view of Ico and his surroundings. Unlike the usual saucer-eyed, cutesy, whey-faced characters of Japanese-created games...
Moreover, Hoxby seems to have diminished the role she was supposed to play in the HCECP. She accuses the committee’s membership of lacking balance since its very inception: “It contains several people who have an explicit pro-living wage agenda and it contains no one with an opposing agenda.” A curious locution. Who, if not Hoxby, opposes the progressive economics of a living wage at Harvard? As a conservative economist who does not otherwise hide her criticism of unions in her scholarship on school choice and who clearly wants a chorus...
From the beginning, it has been obvious that the HCECP did not have process. Its membership is far from balanced—it contains several people who have an explicit pro-living wage agenda and it contains no one with an opposing agenda. Former President Neil L. Rudenstine convinced me to join the committee only by telling me that it would have a quorum of highly principled people who would ensure that its proceedings were fair. Yet, every decision the committee has made suggests otherwise. Just consider the testimony it has heard. Apart from hearing from administrators and contractors...
...Times of India was reassured by Secretary of State Colin Powell's visit this week that India wouldn't suffer the consequences of Washington's renewed affection for Pakistan. "Officials accompanying Secretary of State Powell on his trip to the region were quoted as saying he carried explicit assurances from General Musharraf to the Indian leadership that he (Musharraf) will try and contain extremism in Pakistan," the Times wrote. "After the Clinton administration had virtually discarded Pakistan to the dust heap, the Bush dispensation has decided that it needs to 'manage' Pakistan instead of isolating it. Indian officials say that...
...exhortations of network executives do not constitute government censorship. The networks make their own decisions about what to carry and what to cut. But in times when “supporting your country” has a powerful emotional appeal, such self-censorship can be even more dangerous than explicit prohibitions. Our civil society thrives on free discussion and debate, and if newspapers and television networks truly wish to keep our country strong, they must continue to make available to the public whatever is newsworthy...