Word: explicitness
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...that the U.S. or Israel could strike. So far, there's been little sign that good cop and bad cop are working together. Rice stressed that, while the mullahs' human-rights record is "abysmal", military force is not in the offing, for now. But she didn't offer the explicit support for the negotiations the Europeans want. Next up: the European Union's plan to lift the arms embargo on China. Washington hates the idea, but the ending of the "bizarre and obsolete" embargo "has been announced and will materialize," one French diplomat told Time. The U.S. has also rejected...
Banaji wrote in an e-mail from India yesterday that “the implicit, not to mention explicit, stereotype associating math with male has been demonstrated time and again to affect women’s performance on math and their attitudes toward math...
...some Muslim clerics that the Sept. 11 attacks violated Islamic edicts against surprise attacks. "The Prophet's guidance," says Scheuer, "was always, Before you attack someone, warn them very clearly and offer them a chance to convert to Islam." He contends that bin Laden, by making his warnings very explicit, has "done everything that's required" so that, in his mind, "the criticisms he got after 9/11 won't be valid this time around." Adds Scheuer: "I think what he's done is clearly set the stage for a large attack...
Like Almodovar’s last film, Talk to Her, Bad Education is morally complicated and visually explicit. It is also cinematically literate, beautiful and strikingly well-conceived. As one of the few important filmmakers today who refuses to corrupt or simplify his own work, Almodovar has dropped another much-needed gem into the limited pool of challenging new cinema...
Students’ right to privacy should come before big government projects with no proven results. There is a reason for the Education and Privacy Rights Act, the law currently on the books that restricts federally funded universities from releasing private data without the explicit consent of students or their parents. Under the current proposal, this law would be amended or revoked, and students’ personal information would be left unprotected...