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...just 400. A new Singapore press law requiring foreign publications to be licensed annually and to post a deposit against legal judgments makes clear that "what the government of Singapore wants is for the foreign press to practice self-censorship," the editorial continued. "We cannot accept the implicit bargain." With that, the newspaper announced that it would no longer sell any copies in Singapore...
Actor Christopher Hall perhaps takes his role as Ruiz a bit too literally. In one scene, Ruiz declares to Pizarro that he wants nothing more than to be in Peru with his master. "Being your page is enough, sir," Ruiz says. Submission seems to be Hall's implicit motif throughout the performance, as he is completely unable to assert his character. He is too burdened with flat delivery and inertia...
...recent weeks the Harvard community has been exposed to an avalanche of pro-Iraqi propaganda from a broad spectrum of interest groups such as the Democratic Socialists, Students Against War in the Middle East and the Society of Arab Students (SAS). Implicit in their writings is the claim to represent the opinions of the overwhelming majority of Arabs. In reality, their viewpoints would be more correctly characterized as representing only a small but vocal minority of the Arab people...
...brave movie star who knowingly subverts the values implicit in his own image. It is a brave director who will guide him through a performance that satirizes the grand manner of one of recent movie history's most revered auteurs and, in the end, devastates the great man's macho posturings. Obviously, Clint Eastwood, who both plays John Wilson -- read that as John Huston -- and directs White Hunter, Black Heart, has more gumption than, say, Dirty Harry Callahan. After all, the short-fused San Francisco cop only had to face down outrageous criminals. Having committed this iconoclastic vision of Huston...
...quite the muscular Arab power it appeared to be. "Saddam showed that we are a paper tiger," notes an economist in Riyadh. "Our ability to defend ourselves is a joke." That realization augurs a revamping of the Saudi military. Less easily fixed is the ! breach of the implicit contract between the princes and their lieges. Saudi citizens may come to realize that if the monarch cannot ensure their security, perhaps he ought not to be the only person running things...