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...somehow that conclusion is achieved - maybe with a certain amount of ambiguity, but at least with Jacob's kids provided for and with him tenuously reconnecting with a better, less tightly wired, self. There is, indeed, an implicit promise that with all secrets revealed, all debts to the past paid, lives can proceed in a more humane way. Which is fine and deeply satisfying...
...Longer answer: A modestly mounted, but curiously poignant little documentary called The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, which somehow - quietly, devastatingly - shows and tells you more than you may perhaps want to know about the dehumanization implicit in the mighty, blighted Iraqi adventure...
...genre’s implicit message is that society’s background conditions can never be equal; underserved advantage (and disadvantage) will persist indefinitely. The only solution is taking control of one’s life. The upshot of this outlook is an attachment to earned wealth. Why else should 70 percent of Americans support the abolition of the estate tax (according to The Economist), when barely one in 100 pays...
Some professors justified their absence by the fact that no binding votes were cast—but the same was true of the well-attended meetings where the general education report was discussed. Others have said that the low attendance was implicit criticism. Indeed, some professors present at the meeting criticized the compact for focusing too much on the faculty and not enough on students’ responsibility for their own learning. Yet while their concerns are legitimate—and the compact’s authors agree that student behavior must also be addressed—any disagreement professors...
...that’s the thread in post-hate humor, whether it’s post-homophobia, post-racism, post-anything-not-very-nice. So within post-homophobia, for instance, is the implicit assumption that the teller of the joke (and the audience, too) is not homophobic, which means the joke teller is free to trot out every formerly “offensive” stereotype or sentiment in the service of a good joke...