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...down” approach that excluded their input. Because public conflict is kept to a minimum, they say the real decision-making takes place behind the scenes. And as was the case with VES, Knowles rarely tips his hand until a path has been chosen and the fait accompli can be presented as a positive step...
...Dean has been lying through his teeth,” William Corsetti, curator for educational planning, told The Crimson after the firings. “It was a fait accompli...
...inadvertent bookends explore the Holocaust from its deceptively mundane beginning to a heretofore unstaged end. Conspiracy re-enacts the 90-minute meeting in which silky-voiced SS bureaucrat Reinhard Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh) gently bullies a roomful of Nazi functionaries into accepting the Final Solution as a fait accompli. A bloodless yet brutal testament to the violence of euphemism and groupthink--eerily indistinguishable from any middle managers' meeting--it is the banality of evil brought unignorably to life...
...Europe will basically go along with us, because they have no choice. It's a fait accompli thing. We've told them we're going to negotiate, but also that we're going ahead and building it. So the question of whether or not we do it is not really open to negotiation. But fundamentally, Europe knows its security is tied to Washington. They'll grumble, but will ultimately go along with missile defense...
...president, even if his naysayers insist he lost at the polls. And even though the media may be recounting the ballots in Florida, nobody would dream of trying to reverse the result. No matter what they think about how he got there, Bush's victory is accepted as a fait accompli across the political spectrum in Washington. Not so the selection of Gloria Arroyo in the Philippines and Joseph Kabila in the Congo...